Poetry can help us encounter the mystery at the heart of the matter without being destroyed.

Elmo Kelley, a second-grade teacher at Fontana’s Cypress Elementary School, has published two poetry collections and last ...

"I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies" by June Jordan JOSÉ OLIVAREZ: I’m attracted to the way the poem’s rage is grounded in ...

A crisp new rendering of the Roman poet’s poems underlines how difficult it is to fully relate all his complexities and ...

Poems about life for nearly every situation P oetry doesn’t just reflect life—it makes life an object of art. Whatever state or mood you’re in, poems about life are there to guide you, to ease you and ...

I Never Said I Love You” is a swirling, spellbinding romance without the verbal confession — though it may have worked better as poetry.

Having a bestselling book before it’s released isn’t a new experience for award-winning, renowned poet Rosemerry Wahtola ...

Thoughts of Sterling uses vivid, thought-provoking language and words as pictures to navigate contrasts that define the human spirit—hope and despair, love and heartbreak, the beauty of a relationship ...

At 17, Vanessa Hunter is Charlotte's inaugural youth poet laureate. She shares an original poem with WFAE and talks about ...

To celebrate National Poetry Day we've rounded up the best poems for reading at weddings, funerals and other occasions.

Desire/Halves,” the debut collection by Jai Hamid Bashir, brims with animal energy, the snake, the dog, the oyster, the deer, ...

Jila Mossaed fled Iran for Sweden in 1986, a 38-year-old poet who spoke no Swedish. Three decades later, she became the first ...