The Huntington Education Department will celebrate the nation’s largest chapter of the Poetry Out Loud National Recitation ...

“The ferocious parts of the Psalms,” Lewis writes, “serve as a reminder that there is in the world such a thing as wickedness ...

The job of a poet laureate is to engage Illinoisans in poetry, with each poet laureate given a small stipend to enact that ...

I adored the way authors were able to evoke emotion and take me on a journey through words on a page. I wanted that gift. I dreamed that I could write something that allows anyone who reads it to get ...

In the midst of turbulent times, it can be hard not to fixate on the troubles of the present moment. Here's how hope can ...

In honour of Mahmoud Darwish’s 84th birthday, we examine how the Palestinian wordsmith continues to inspire creativity in the ...

Indiana author Rebecca Kai Dotlich writes about how a childhood spent collecting lyrics and words sparked her love of poetry.

When you are not fed love on a silver spoon, you learn to lick it off knives,” is a provocative line written by poet Lauren Eden in her 2018 book “Lioness Awakens.” For Maya Picard, it also lit a ...

What drives you to explore these topics? I believe poetry should stem from what you truly care about. For me, two themes dominate: gender discrimination and love. While I care about other issues ...

Today, my colleague, Kashmir Hill, on a woman whose relationship with the chatbot went much further than that, and what her story means for love in the age of AI. It’s Tuesday, February 25.

Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.