Sometimes, when you read a poem, it feels as if it were crafted just for you, as though the poet could see directly into your ...

Nayyirah Waheed is an Instapoet who shares her insights and thoughts of the world through poetry she shares on Instagram. With over 460k followers, and more than 100 posts, she's taking words to the ...

What would an acorn write to an oak tree? Or a coat to her button? A child to his toes? A pebble to the river? Dear Acorn, ...

Emily Dickinson, whose birthday was December 10, 1830, was a poet known for her reclusive lifestyle. Many of us today, being increasingly reclusive ourselves, have grown to appreciate the incredible ...

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.

Henry Israeli’s fourth book of poetry, “Our Age of Anxiety,” was published by Wine Pine Press in September as the winner of the 2019 Wine Pine Poetry Prize. An associate teaching professor in Drexel’s ...

William Shakespeare's wisdom still inspires individuals of all generations. His words transcend poetry; they investigate the ...

Lyn Hejinian’s poem has the sonnet’s traditional 14 lines and even features the sonnet’s coupletlike resolution, but the length of its lines exceeds tradition, nearly reaching to the very edges of ...

An elegy to the ecstasy of life in the gutter. By Jackie Wang Selected by Anne Boyer Jackie Wang’s poem draws its title, in part, from Djuna Barnes’s 1936 novel of queer love, “Nightwood”: “ladies of ...

Read Part 2: With a range of accents, a unity poem years in the making is brought to life through culturally diverse voices “We are the unbreakable woven thread.” “They want red white and blue, but ...