Stephanie Pacheco, a student at Borough of Manhattan Community College, wrote “Dear CUNY” to celebrate the value New York’s ...

Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a ...

Poems don’t give you news, they give you inspiration. Poems don’t give you knowledge, they heighten your sensitivity. Poems don’t give you information, they increase your empathy.

Duarte, an Elko High School senior, is a two-time district winner and now on her way to Washington, D.C., to represent Nevada at the National Poetry Out Loud competition ...

Spring break has officially dawned for most high school students throughout the Yakima Valley, barely more than two weeks after the spring season itself officially broke on the calendar.

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

There’s a lot going on in the poetry community right now. My Santa Barbara Independent colleague, George Yatchisin, will become Santa Barbara’s next Poet Laureate. I will be passing the laurels onto ...

In celebration of National Poetry Month, the Bards of Moon City will host a series of free poetry readings in Springfield during April.

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.

Daughtry is now planning the annual, three-day “Our Voices: Festival of Words” event this month, what he calls “an attempt to display the power of words and literacy.” It will take place from April 24 ...

The night’s roster included the writer Gideon Jacobs, the poet Jordan Franklin and the digital artist Molly Soda, among ...

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