The Commonwealth of Massachusetts may have a better right than any other state to call itself “the poetry state.” Celebrated ...

I have met so many good people of Petersburg, and I love the great possibilities that the city has on the horizon' ...

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

A west Belfast writer is set to bring poetry to life at the Grand Central Station after being named ‘poet-in-residence’ for ...

Missouri Poet Laureate David Harrison shares how to fill your own sack of ideas and describes what he keeps in his.

Jacobs, the founder of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry, has written two previously acclaimed collections: Pelvis with ...

In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities as memorably — which, for Frost, meant as mischievously — as possible: ...

And if you ask me how, I do not know. I only feel it, and I’m torn in two. Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness ...

We share 5 top tips to help you take your poetry to the next level, with advice from award-winning poet and UAL Short Courses ...

The words of fisher poet Steve Schoonmaker, when put to the sounds of Jim Maloney’s music, create a sense of wonder about the ...