Spring is here, awakening the forsythia, crocuses and poets. Many of this month's winning poems deal with some aspect of spring, from its annual awakening to one poet's desire to die in the season of ...

Spring Festival, also known as Lunar New Year, is one of the most anticipated, large-scale and celebratory seasons in Chinese culture. Around this time each year, families and loved ones gather no ...

If it’s April and the sun is out, it must be spring, or so they say. If it’s spring, it must mean the daffodils are blooming everywhere. Since the first signs of spring don’t seem to be anywhere, I ...

The Howe Writing Center's annual poetry contest, “Colors,” invited Miami writers to explore the multiple ways colors intersect with their lives. Presented with an array of colors, writers distilled ...

There are some big retrospectives (Bidart, Dove, Rich) on the slate this spring; mother (Notley) and son (Berrigan) drop new books; and one could do worse than just picking up anything from Copper ...

If you're having a rough go of it this spring, don't worry. I've got 11 poetry collections to read that will reflect your inner world and open you up to a whole new outer world. These books are some ...

NPR news poet and University of California, Berkeley, professor Tess Taylor has a spring roundup of poetry books that are all debut collections. And I'm Robert Siegel. Now, some new poetry. Tess ...