In Russia, no poet need starve if he can hack out odes extolling "socially useful" goals. In revolt against sloganeering paeans that read like Pravda set to rhyme, hundreds of ...

A year after David Harrison began the "Poetry from Daily Life" column, he has received funding to record the contributors ...

An early ho, ho, ho my reading friends! As we move into the holiday season, I’m reflecting on some of my favorite reads that ...

Acclaimed San Antonio writer Naomi Shihab Nye talks about the “clarifying” power of poetry and why it’s needed in turbulent ...

You can read Minneapolis poet Danez Smith’s work in two new books or, if you happen to be in New York, on subway walls.

Any anthology is a product of its editor’s decisions. In “ 100 Great Catholic Poems ” (Word on Fire, $34.95), editor Sally ...

“I’d rather read a poem by Wordsworth or Yeats. There’s just so much available to us with complex beautiful expressions of ...

Thanksgiving poems full of gratitude Thanksgiving often inspires us to get a little poetic. Thinking and speaking about the ...

Friendship poems to celebrate your bestie Birthdays are fantastic occasions, but who says you can’t celebrate friendship any ...

With over 40 armed conflicts now taking place around the world, the costs of warfare are immense and continue to mount with ...

Probably no sonnet has ever meant so much to so many people as the one by Emma Lazarus that adorns the Statue of Liberty in ...

I try to carry on as normal, but this has completely upturned the foundation of my life - everything I thought was real. What ...