Kevin Young perfectly illustrates poetry’s enduring vitality — and his new book reveals exactly why. A survey of American history through the “intimate eye” that only poetry can provide, Brown ...

Young poets from across the state joined with officials including first lady Lori Shapiro today in a reveal celebration of ...

Multi-award-winning writer Marina Brown's new book contains 58 poems that invite readers into beauty and soul-searching.

You might wonder where poems come from. I’d like to write a poem, you think. But what should I write about? From poet Sharon Olds: “What you know that I don’t know is what you can tell me in a poem.

Syracuse, N.Y. -- Rainy days stink. We know that here in Syracuse only too well. There have been at least 100 days this year with enough rain (or snow or sleet) to measure. Spring passed in wet gray, ...

And then, we’re off and running. The faux annotator presents the alphabetized poems as a Wunderkammer, a catalogue of ...

American poet Emily Dickinson. A mystical recluse, she lived all her life in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily Dickinson was a 19th-century American poet whose name has become synonymous with classic ...

Most Fridays, Mary Lee Hahn, a 5th grade English and language arts teacher at Wright Elementary School in Dublin, Ohio, has her students pick a poem and recite it to the class. She’s been doing this ...

The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. Parts of two previously unknown poems by the Greek lyric poet Sappho have been discovered on an ancient papyrus. An ...

THERE is a very good reason why the relation of poetry to political revolution should interest our generation. Poetry, to most people, stands for the intensely personal life of the individual spirit.