In “Night Watch,” Kevin Young riffs on Dante’s “Inferno” and gives voice to silenced figures from the nation’s past.

Acclaimed poet and Worcester State University professor Heather Treseler has won the 2025 Massachusetts Book Award for Poetry ...

Every April, in honor of National Poetry Month, we call on our audience (yes, you!) to help us celebrate the art of the verse. We asked for your original poems: haiku, couplets, free form, you name it ...

The Northern Kentucky writer publishes the fourth volume of his Wild Sonnets project, marrying tradition and trend in seven-line stanzas. The mission statement on your website mentions your interest ...

It’s National Poetry Month, so in schools across the country, teachers will be sharing poems with kids. Maybe some Shel Silverstein or Jack Prelutsky or Joyce Sidman. Maybe even some William Carlos ...

Esther Oriyomi Eriwayo is a committed poet, no doubt. She comes with those rare messages of hope that some other poets may not be comfortable with. This is even more the reason she has titled her ...

The collection goes out with a bang in “Rush,” another breathless plea, this time to grab life with no time to lose.

For the past few years, NPR has celebrated National Poetry Month by turning to the talents of our audience — your haikus, limericks, odes ... the list goes on. Earlier this month, All Things ...

The scholar of religion Albert Blackwell has remarked of Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” that its “chorales are not dramatic music, but they impart musical drama.” Hymn verses appear five times in the ...

When the pandemic forced creatives at Berkeley-based animation shop Tonko House to work from home, studio co-founder Robert Kondo used the pause to take walks with his young daughter, who is now five, ...