Somehow, none of her poems has found its way into picture books — until now, as Caldecott honoree Melissa Sweet turns ...

Poetry and community go hand-in-hand. Sometimes lacking a defined form but always full of heart, they create a space for discussing, relating, exploring, expressing, healing. This year's Free Verse ...

April is National Poetry Month and a good time to consider beginning a poetry writing practice for yourself and/or your ...

Exhibit organizers hope it serves as a model in Philly and the U.S. for addressing mental health wounds of gun violence ...

Poetry is more than an art form. It is a lineage of healing. Our communities have long used rhythm, story, and verse to transform pain into wisdom. In every language and every tradition, we have ...

Poetry suddenly seems more relevant since Sept. 11. Poems by Auden and Yeats and Marianne Moore -- particularly Auden's "September 1, 1939," written after the Nazi invasion of Poland and containing ...

We started Poetry Daily, inviting publishers to send us their publications, so that we could introduce representative poems to our readers, one a day. We were surprised and pleased to discover that ...

If you've ever fancied yourself as a poet but don't quite have the lyrical and rhythmic skills one might require, Google's Verse by Verse tool can help you to craft the most delectable verse. The ...

HARDWICK —Verse Village and Jeudevine Memorial Library invite poets and those who love to hear spoken-word performances of ...

Russell Goings, a former Wall Street executive turned writer, wanted to immortalize his experiences at the 1995 Million Man March in verse. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...

For Robert Pinsky, the pleasure in poetry comes from the music of the language, and not from the meaning of the words. So he put together an anthology of 80 poems that are models by master poets-- ...