Joshua Clover’s “My Life in the New Millennium” begins with a thorny, if familiar, either/or. Then the poem moves quickly to accrue its juxtapositions and surprises, providing room for both ...

I was in Rolla Missouri at the age of 28 when I wrote the poem “Drug of Habit” in which was the time I was battling an addiction with a needle, which absorbed so much of my life as I could not ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Elizabeth Mendez, a fourth grader at George Washington Carver Dual Language School, wrote a poem about being a bilingual student for Hispanic Heritage Month.

Several years ago, you printed a poem about "a pretty good student." I was 13 at the time. My father clipped it and glued it to the cover of my school binder. Whenever I felt the urge to goof off ...

On a long walk, I realized that my life is like a poem in another way, too: My life, like a poem, is small and enormous. Let me explain. In a poem, counterintuitively, compression creates expansion.

In a collaboration between the O, Miami poetry festival and the Madrid-based art collective Boa Mistura, a Miami Beach Senior High School student’s poem has inspired a sprawling new mural.

Poet Reuben Jackson acknowledges that his response to where he finds inspiration – the world – is a “corny, general answer.” He’s curious – or more accurately, n… ...

My City is amazing, the rhythm of it soothes me - Deja Graves, grade 4 When the sun dips in the city, the twilight inspires Dominic Lenox to write. "The buildings and streets are lonesome," the ...

Where do poems come from? I’m asked that question a lot. Where do you get your ideas? Where do poems come from? After my school assembly programs, I like to allow time for students and teachers ...