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

One of the reasons writing poetry effectively reduces stress is its capacity to facilitate emotional release. Stress often ...

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 ...

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

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

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

William Woolfitt's new poetry collection, "The Night the Rain Had Nowhere To Go," pays homage to generations of his people in ...

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

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 ...

Poet Laureate Jason Magabo Perez envisioned Saturday’s Poetry Futures 2024 Coda at the UC San Diego Cross-Cultural Center as ...

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