William Sieghart's Poetry Pharmacy inspired the creation of this tool, which offers users a poem based on their responses to ...

An after-school poetry club will travel to the Globe Theatre in London to pick up the Special Award.

A poetry collection. That could happen, right? Instead of pawing for your doomscrolling device, you could instead pick up a ...

Evanston Public Library hosted a Poetry Playspace event, inviting participants to learn about poetry and write together, in ...

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 ...

Set against ecological crisis, political violence, and technological change, these collections grapple with the search for ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

Culturally, poetry is used in varied ways. Haikus, for example, juxtapose images of the everyday, while lyric poetry expresses the personal and emotional. Similarly, poets themselves come in a range ...

The poet Diane Seuss and I began a recent conversation by talking about the burdens of companionship—or, at least, how those burdens are manifested through affection for a pet. Seuss lost her dog Bear ...