Poetry is one of the most powerful art forms we have. Since ancient times, poems — from haikus to sonnets to limericks — have succinctly and beautifully translated the joys and sorrows of the world ...

Separation of poetry from prose affects revolutionary consciousness, and deliberately cleaves the imaginative from the ...

Jacinta White, a poet in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, started the Word Project as a way to help youth tell their stories through poetry. She conducts workshops designed to bridge social divisions ...

As if the world weren't already full enough of awful human poetry, now the robot overlords want in. SEE ALSO: This cake-making robot puts your other household robots to shame Researchers from ...

UPDATE: The deadline for the spring poetry contest is now Sunday, April 30th by midnight! Every spring semester, the Howe Writing Center hosts a poetry contest that challenges writers with specific ...

There was a time, not too long ago, when many people could only name one, maybe two, poets – often a long-dead White man named William Shakespeare, Robert Frost or Walt Whitman. Meanwhile, the Lincoln ...

The prolonged absence of parents often places grandparents, as the children's primary caregivers, at the center of their emotional lives. Yet, as loving as most grandparents are, the limits imposed by ...

Three years ago, a young spoken word poet named Sarah Kay dazzled the TED Conference, earning two standing ovations. Her performance about writing poetry to entertain and educate has since received ...

When I was in my early 20s, living in Berkeley and drifting toward a PhD in Russian literature, I started writing poetry. It was a completely unexpected development. I definitely hadn’t been one of ...