Today is the shortest day of the year, also known as the winter solstice. The solstice marks the start of winter in ...

David Groff, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and educator, discusses the need for poets to embrace entrepreneurial ...

Funny Poems for Christmas by Paul Cookson is a popular choice during the holidays, so order early! Santa Got Stuck in the ...

I’m a fan of narrative poems, poems that tell a story. As I see it, that’s how poetry started, with epic poems that had to be ...

In south Minneapolis, there's a tree that doesn't ask for much — just a little kindness and the willingness to connect.

With “Context Collapse,” Ryan Ruby aims to explain poetry’s origins and its waves of innovation all the way to the present.

Clement Clarke Moore owned the land where this glam townhouse now stands — and it’s listed just in time for Christmas.

Sometime in the 1970s, probably at an event in the San Francisco Bay Area, I heard Audre Lorde read a poem.  I don’t remember ...

“The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz” is a fascinating volume; a poet’s life in full.

His personality in the classroom peers through in his writings. He shares some of them during the poetry event. Some are dark ...

A former student of Nikki Giovanni's recalls the fateful day when the poet and activist convinced him he was an artist. Then ...

Renowned poet, activist, author and professor Nikki Giovanni has died. She was 81.