Randle Chowning, founder of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, writes about songs that tell a story and shares one based on a ...

What’s your favorite Langston Hughes poem? Maybe it’s one you grew up with. Maybe it’s one you stumbled across in a moment of ...

Libraries, schools and cultural organizations around Massachusetts and the country celebrate April as National Poetry Month. In honor of that occasion, please enjoy the official state poem of the ...

Friedrich Hölderlin was an important German Romantic lyric poet whose great work managed to bridge the Classical and Romantic ...

‘Nature renews and repairs herself every spring, helps herself, and we must not hinder her anymore.’ So writes Michael ...

"Seasons: A Year of Midwestern Life" by Nicholas Rynerson dives into the changing landscape in a farm town in Central ...

SHARON AUBERLE “I know enough to refuse to say that life is good, but I act as though it were…” – Lisel Mueller, poet I know ...

Johnny Tillotson, the Grammy-nominated country and pop singer famed for his hit 'Poetry in Motion', passed away at 86. His ...

Library System (NOLS) is excited to bring poetry programs to Clallam County during Poetry Month this April, in partnership ...

Singer and songwriter Johnny Tillotson passed away on April 1 at the age of 86. The news of the singer’s death was announced in an emotional Facebook post by his wife, Nancy Tillotson.

Explore 8 powerful but lesser-known poems by Maya Angelou that reveal her depth, spirit, and poetic genius—perfect for discovery during National Poetry Month.