Stephanie Pacheco, a student at Borough of Manhattan Community College, wrote “Dear CUNY” to celebrate the value New York’s ...

Happy National Poetry Month everyone! I love poetry and for the last several years have taken it upon myself to post a poem a ...

For National Poetry Month, I’ve curated a playlist of seven songs that represent poetic devices like allusion, irony and rhyme. I call it “the wordplaylist.” Prepare to be taken back to middle school ...

Andrew Chi Keong Yim has a fixation with place. Whether it’s in wandering the fluorescent halls of a mall or by interrogating the role that Asian Americans have in settling on native soil in the ...

Kristie Frederick Daugherty is celebrating National Poetry Month in April by partnering with Swift Alert to connect Swifties ...

Imbuing his work with a volatile mix of tenderness, aggression, sophistication, and obscenity, the Roman poet left a record ...

I think the things that are essential for creating are also essential for living, says poet Maggie Smith. There’s a lot of overlap between making things and just being a person in the world.

I would have liked to know that it would be the last time I rocked my child to sleep, or held their hand as we walked, or ...

These collections by Juliana Spahr, Mai Der Vang, Hasib Hourani and Martín Espada invite us to rethink the relentless accumulation of history.

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

One could call it a celebration of love at an especially difficult time. Shaftsbury writers Brad Peacock and James Crews, ...

Tavish Forsyth, the associate artistic lead for the Washington National Opera’s Opera Institute, released the video of them performing a 35-minute spoken-word poem ... the other hand, is staying ...