Akeem Lasisi's poem establishes the endless, painful anticipation the victims' parents and many other concerned people have for the return of the remaining Chibok Girls.Performance poet and journalist ...

Poetry in the Natural World" edited by 24th U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. I'm your guide, Katie Campbell. I asked y'all to try writing a poem of your own — you delivered.

The Academy of American Poets initiated April to be Poetry Month in 1996. While we generally think of poetry to be written ...

Founded in 1996 by a pair of Black poets who felt isolated in predominantly white literary spaces, Cave Canem has become one ...

Peggy Shumaker, a stalwart supporter of Alaska writers and the larger arts community, is a professor emerita from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a former Alaska writer laureate. Author of nine ...

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch," "The early bird catches the worm" — these and other proverbs are poems ...

For certain, we in the Berkshires are proud of our gardens, and there is a delight in the air when spring weather invites the ...

For 40 years, the Library of Congress has named a poet laureate of the United States, many of whom take on large-scale projects to engage poetry lovers. Ada Limón, the current poet laureate, sees a ...

Celebrate National Poetry Month in the Hudson Valley with these workshops, talks, readings, open mics and a hotline.

Feis Verse Speaking/Own Poetry sections ran very successfully recently at St. Michael’s College, Enniskillen. The mid-March event ...

This semester’s CSO concert takes its audience on “The Wanderer’s Tale” — a hero’s journey narrated through a number of ...