Poetry addresses many of our most commonly experienced human challenges and has the power to foster resilience, hope, and ...

Before English became the language of Shakespeare, empire, science, pop songs, and the lingua franca of the world, it was the ...

When was the last time you picked up a pen and composed a letter to a friend or a family member? NPR's poet in residence Kwame Alexander reminds us that letter writing delivers something more to the ...

Poet and performance artist John Giorno launched Dial-a-Poem in the 1960s to deliver random poems over the phone. Now, a group continues his work on a new medium — the internet. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1 ...

For centuries, a single parchment leaf lay unnoticed inside a thick composite volume at Rome’s Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In his memoir, "Story of a Poem" (Unnamed Press), the celebrated writer Michael Zapruder (author of "Father's Day" and ...

The way loneliness skulks in one of Elizabeth Acevedo's poems probably would have felt familiar even before the pandemic forced us into more isolating situations. Beginning with the line "it's the ...

There is nothing fresh or original here, no wit or zing, no pressure on language or form or voice or thought.’ ...

WoMag editor Victor D. Infante had never heard of Worcester when he met the 1996 Worcester Poetry Slam Team in Oregon. Then ...