Poetry isn't as scary as you think. These 14 collections of poems tackle everything from grief and race to family and love.

Two Cincinnati poets captured the spirit of the Civil War. Now, an Anderson Township man wants to find the poem that reflects ...

Limón's work documents everything from kingfisher birds to the cosmos itself. "I'm embracing my strangeness," she says of her poetry. Her new collection is Startlement.

Gulf of Maine Books (134 Maine St., Brunswick) will host poet James Lenfesty, reading from his new book “Time Remaining – ...

The OmniVerse Poetry Trail has been launched across Weymouth and Portland in Dorset as part of the Towns of Culture 2025 ...

Maya Angelou’s legacy goes beyond the body of work she shared with the world during her lifetime. Her legacy as one of the greatest writers of all time also embodies the ability she had to hold on to ...

In James Merrill’s Collected Poems, all the “Previously Uncollected Poems” appear bunched together at the end, thus depriving ...

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

Poetry has a cosmic power. Missouri's new Poet Laureate, Justin Hamm, wants to connect this power to Missourians of all ages.

Winners of the Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize gave a reading of selected poems at the Austin Building’s Stern Lounge on April 10. The Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize is an annual contest held for ...

Poetry provides all these treasures and, even if we accept one of them, it restores our ability to cope, and our sense of ...