Studying poetry is not as scary as it seems. To many people who have taken an English class in their lives, poetry can seem like a daunting, confusing and incomprehensible task. Sometimes the verse is ...

On Saturday, poets of every stripe will take to the streets for Philadelphia Poetry Day. Dozens of poets — and would-be poets — will position themselves on stages, on street corners, and in shopping ...

With Instagram helping budding poets find audiences and publishers pitching in, a slew of English poets is experiencing ...

Six and a half years ago, some folks at Collaborative Arts Insurgency began hosting a weekly, guerrilla-style poetry slam on a Mission District street corner that has taken on a life of its own. What ...

In the first chapter of “My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer,” a book Christian Wiman wrote in the wake of a bone marrow transplant to treat his incurable blood cancer, he introduces us ...

Everybody wants a piece of the calendar. For the second year in a row, the poets of America have spent April staking a claim to the month as their own. In fact, long before March limped out, lamb-like ...

Going out of his way to be kind to beginning and second-rate poets was not in Joe Parisi’s job description. He was a front-line editor, a screener of unsolicited verse for Chicago-based Poetry ...

April is Poetry Month, and there’s an abundance of new poetry books for children. Here’s a closer look: Since the post of Children’s Poet Laureate was created several years ago, three people have held ...