April is National Poetry Month, a time for readers and writers to come together to share their favorite verses. Bustle has put together your reading list for National Poetry Month 2020, filled with ...

The devastating ramifications of the global coronavirus pandemic and tragic death of George Floyd have inspired some social media users to declare that 2020 is “cancelled,” though a now-viral poem ...

As many reports suggest, living in a pandemic, as bad and frightening as it might be, can be made just a little easier by poetry. That’s not surprising, as some of the themes that poetry circles and ...

A fiction writer turned poet, a ghost writer of sixty books, Mitch Sisskind, without losing his humor, has lived a writer’s life. A spiritual person, Sisskind finds cosmological joy in the human ...

After nearly four decades of writing poetry, a Greeley woman finally published some of the approximately 800 poems she has tucked away — at age 78. Eileen Volpe, a former teacher in California and ...

Poems on Panes is a community building initiative that engages local writers and business owners along with readers in discovering poetry in public places. The project features the work of local poets ...

April is National Poetry Month. And, as we celebrate an art form which gives shape and language to our experience of the world, it's worth noting that many readers still struggle to find the door, the ...

One tribute to the late John Lewis began by noting his love of W. E. Henley’s “Invictus”; it seems to have been Nelson Mandela’s favorite too, as affirmed in Morgan Freeman’s reading of the poem.