Poetry isn’t just for the romantics, the literary types or the melancholic. Poetry can be for everyone. American poet Lucille ...

Three new collections by mid-career poets lay claim to stories of identity, suffering and hope, to a kind of collective ...

Thomas Kinsella’s interview, with email questions from Adrienne Leavy in Phoenix, Arizona, and replies from Dublin, covers a broad array of issues, including his memories of growing up in ...

The award for poetry this year went to Mark Strand for his book "Blizzard of One." It's Strand's ninth book of poetry. He has also published several books of translations, edited poetry anthologies, ...

Once, when Ben Bernthal was selling street poetry — he takes three words from a stranger, and turns them into a poem on the spot — a man came up and told him to write a poem about “why it matters.” ...

Even the previously uncollected work in “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” shows a master craftsman in full control of his powers.

WILSON CHAPMAN: From The Daily Northwestern, I’m Wilson Chapman. Thanks for tuning in. The Daily is collaborating with a selection of poets from The Slam Society, a performance poetry group on campus.

One of the most celebrated moments of President Joe Biden’s inauguration featured a poet named Amanda Gorman. Gorman is one of only a handful of poets to perform at a presidential inauguration. At age ...

MATT WALSH (HOST): Now, of course, when this dumb politician says that America no longer represents what the statue symbolizes, he's talking mainly about the poem on the statue. Like, what does the ...