There’s a lot going on in the poetry community right now. My Santa Barbara Independent colleague, George Yatchisin, will ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

BYU professor of English Lance Larsen has been writing poetry for four decades. His poems are regularly published in leading ...

Poet and author Charles Ghigna shares the story of a poem he wrote after waking up to his infant son's babbling over a nursery monitor.

Century High School alumna and University of Minnesota student Amina Hasan waxes poetically about a special working space.

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 to ask questions.

Boston-based writer Porsha Olayiwola is the spring artist-in-residence for Michigan State University’s Womxn of Color ...

It’s impossible for me to talk about writing without talking about living, writes Maggie Smith, author of the new book, "Dear ...

The arts are often written off as worthless, or certainly not worth the federal funding that they receive. But young poets like me know otherwise.

I remember just being astonished by the representations of the gods. The omnipresence of the gods in the world of the Iliad, ...

Some people go through life thick-skinned. School or career has given them a pragmatic, instrumental, efficiency-maximizing ...

Spoken word artist K Love The Poet discusses her journey to finding purpose, performance with MC Lyte, and how poetry became her vehicle for empowerment.