With these relatively short poems, you'll understand why poets are ... An icon of his time, Lord Byron (aka George Gordon) is ...

The loss of Sandra Brooms (left) last year inspired her daughter Stephanie Oakley (right) to write poetry. One year later, Poems of a Southern Nobody has been recognized in USA Today. As Stephanie… ...

Andrew Cunningham, 29, spotted a tip online which suggested supermarkets send free gifts if customers send them a poem. He decided to test it out and wrote brand-specific short poems for 50 of his ...

Here are the best poetry books that will have you feeling intellectual ... This Pulitzer Prize-winning collection is a gift to the ages from an ageless poet whose short life was a misery, but which ...

Musicians have long taken inspiration from poetry for their work; here are four rock songs that pull from well-known poems.

Chief among the insights we gain from reading history is that what we read is often relevant to what we are experiencing ...

This weekend showcases the endless possibilities in Iowa City from the Mic Check Poetry Fest to special film screenings ...

Tell all those who will listen and the rest: For the sake of the future, do what is best ... about the Plastic poem, it's time to write your own. Your poem can be as short or as long as you ...

Eric Kim’s scallion-oil fish turns olive oil, alliums and white fish fillets into a simple, luscious dinner. Who isn’t ...

Indeed, I think that when we dare to embrace poetry’s capacity to make nothing happen, we might come to a richer conception of those things we love to treat as battened down—stuff like doctrine and ...