What may at first glance seem like a simple nature poem holds a deeper meaning that can teach children a lot about our world. First published in 1846, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “The Mountain and the ...

Permission” brings a memory of dog training, their pet now elderly: “I wonder if she remembers your scent — the cloud/ of ...

The Louisiana Book Festival has announced its full slate of programs featuring poets and poetry on Saturday, November 1, in ...

Maya Angelou, considered one of the best poets in history, signs copies of "Maya Angelou: Letter to My Daughter" at Barnes & Noble in Union Square on October 30, 2008 in New York City. Poetry is a ...

A teenager has said it feels "surreal" to have been crowned as a young poet of the year. Ellanya Sivasubramaniam, 15, from ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition? Think again.

Poetry isn’t as popular as it used to be. However, it’s still one of the most important and creative forms of literature. As it turns out, it’s fairly difficult to mess up a poetry app, apparently.

Short, straightforward poetry is TikTok’s latest literary trend, attracting plenty of fans and critics alike, though some poets say the popularity of poems as short as one sentence long has made it ...

How do I love thee? Let me count the page views. If traffic at the Poetry Foundation’s website is any indication, modern love is romantic, nostalgic, morbid and ironic — in roughly that order. A list ...

"Here if anywhere in America, I seem to hear the coming footsteps of the muses," William Butler Yeats wrote on a visit to Los Angeles in 1925. And yet, despite the city's rich artistic traditions, ...