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

There are many types of poetry in the world, from love poems that will make you swoon to nature poems and protest poems that examine the world around us in very different ways. But all poetry ...

Black History Month traces back to 1915, half a century after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States. In that pivotal year, Carter G. Woodson and Jesse E. Moorland founded ...

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site memorializes the poet whose work defined mid-century America. It’s easy to overlook the small flat rock surrounded by woods at Carl Sandburg Home National ...

In these interview excerpts from scholars, explore Whitman's calling as a poet, and the idea of a national poet. Ed Folsom, a literature professor and Whitman specialist at the University of Iowa ...

These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

For 176 years, the city Austin had no poet laureate. Plenty of creative people hung out here. The official post, however, did ...

Poetry is a vessel for greater understanding in the same way that a voice is a vessel for language,” Price said.

Editor's Note: Singer/songwriter Warren Zevon died of lung cancer Sunday night at the age of 56. To celebrate the life of his good friend, Page 2's Hunter S. Thompson offers this look back at a ...