Local educators, advocates and community members are encouraged to help S.U.R.E (Swampscott Unites, Respects, Embraces) ...

National Poetry Reading series makes a comeback in Reno, Nevada, breathing additional life into the city's literary landscape ...

Nursery rhymes teach children all manner of things using the language of poetry, writes Australian author and researcher ...

Share This poem, Bloom, is a masterful blend of vivid imagery, metaphor, and emotional depth, rooted in the poetic traditions ...

These collections by Juliana Spahr, Mai Der Vang, Hasib Hourani and Martín Espada invite us to rethink the relentless accumulation of history.

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. Nora Fulton’s poem “ ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

It’s impossible for me to talk about writing without talking about living, writes Maggie Smith, author of the new book, "Dear ...

For 176 years, the city Austin had no poet laureate. Plenty of creative people hung out here. The official post, however, did ...

In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “ wild reciter ...

Alliteration, as shown by the many Vs in the book’s title, is “the repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words in succession whose purpose is to provide an audible pulse that gives ...

Lyrics use poetic devices such as rhyme, repetition, metaphors and imagery, and hence can be considered similar to poems.' ...