As one of many pop-up events in celebration of National Poetry Month, the Five Nevada County Women Poets will, for the ninth ...

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

On National Dinosaur Day (Sunday 1 June), a joyful and silly interactive family show for kids aged 4 to 11 celebrating our ...

The Long Beach Public Library and the literary group Shore Poets will host the third annual "It's a Shore Thing! Poetry ...

There’s a lot going on in the poetry community right now. My Santa Barbara Independent colleague, George Yatchisin, will ...

BYU professor of English Lance Larsen has been writing poetry for four decades. His poems are regularly published in leading ...

April is National Poetry Month, so in honor of that I will offer some thoughts about springtime poems. The first to come to ...

Poetry and feminism have always been intertwined but in recent years, many new feminist and queer voices have emerged and ...

Unlike our everyday writing, poetry is artistic, expressive, and figurative. Understanding the subject of a poem The first thing you should do when given a poem is read its title carefully.

(Tin House via AP) Sometimes reading poetry can feel exhilarating ... of a daughter’s duty and an immigrant’s place in the world. The poems make use of the canon’s go-to imagery — rivers, seas, ...

We Irish are nothing if not poets. Here is a selection of the best Irish poems and songs that show off Ireland's spectacular way with words and fill us with pride in being Irish.