Chip Williford, the director and co-host of the Riverhead-based Poetry Street, has been named Suffolk County Poet Laureate — the first African American ever named to the post in Suffolk.

Andrea had a unique ability to offer their readers and listeners a way of living, to show us how much we need tenderness, and ...

Words need to "audition" for the chance to be in a sentence, poet Kate Coombs writes. In a poem, they need to be perfect for ...

In the raw poetry of "Tell Me Something Good," he explores childhood trauma that challenged him, special education students who lift him up.

The moon has been an important subject in English poetry dating back to Chaucer in the 14th century, who was an astronomer as ...

During the EcoTarium's 200th anniversary celebration Worcester Youth Poet Laureate Serenity Jackson reads an original poem ...

Well, a new study has finally given the answer to the long-believed poem, using data from over 2,000 children. Conducted by researchers from the University of York, they wanted to know whether the ...

Gibson, who died this week, valued live performance and emotionally resonant language.

Paul Laurence Dunbar, who wrote during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is credited as one of the first influential Black poets in America. A graduate of Howard University, he was ...

Sometimes a poet is fortunate enough to discover an entire collection of rich poem-triggers — something that triggers in the ...

In reading Women in a Golden State, I see my mother in so many of the poems. Sharon Langley’s poem, “I Saw My Mom Today,” ...

A collaboration of the library and PA Humanities, the Rain Poetry project features hidden haiku that is revealed only when ...