So many of her poems are about things that kids pay a lot of attention to, like bees and insects and snakes and death,” Pierce Bonifaz said. “So it was really easy for the students to have a ...

When the world feels dreary and dark, one might go to the Harvard Book Store and pick up a collection of poems. The act of reading poetry is transformative; it can bring light and optimism in the ...

Jenn Carter (she/her) is nonbinary, shy, Queer, a lover of nature and books, a mom, a survivor, and an educator. She writes ...

In “The Serious World,” the latest collection from former Spokane Poet Laureate Laura Read, the poem “Dear Sylvia,” addressed ...

Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’” by Robert Hayden, reflects on what art can (and can’t) do in tumultuous times. Our critic A.O. Scott ...

Who said that? You look around, dazed and dumbfounded, then drop gently to the ground.

The former president wrote of his enduring love for his wife of several decades in a recently resurfaced 1995 poem titled "Rosalynn" Virginia Chamlee is a Politics Writer at PEOPLE. She has been ...

Human speech is rich with rhythm. As a person speaks, certain syllables are naturally emphasized, whereas others blend into the background. In this way, regular conversation becomes poetic. Language ...

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be ...

Over the river, and through the wood, To grandfather’s house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh Through the white and drifted snow. Over the river, and through the wood— Oh, how the ...

NPR's Scott Detrow sat down with poet Kate Baer at Midtown Scholar, a bookstore in Harrisburg, Penn., to talk about her new book of poetry, How About Now.

On Wednesday, Nov. 5, during the second day of the University of Georgia Poetry Festival at the Georgia Museum of Art, poets ...