Fresno’s seventh poet laureate will be honored at Fresno City Hall and recite a poem for Fresno following the proclamation.

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 ...

His world became call buttons and catheters, splints and gloves, physical therapy and occupational therapy, speech therapy ...

Joy Harjo, the first Native American Poet Laureate in the U.S., is releasing two illustrative books this month, centered ...

Poetry is often seen as an indulgence and/or as something reserved for certain kinds of intellectuals and artists. It can be considered inaccessible for various reasons, not the least of which being ...

Jean Prokott—a decade-long Century High School English teacher, the city’s third Poet Laureate, a recent recipient of a $50K ...

In an eighth grade U.S. history class last fall, Janai Meschery read a poem by her father titled “The Legend,” which ...

"I tried to peel apart every single thing and make peace for it, try to understand it and let it go,” Maria Shriver tells USA TODAY.

“Poetry is the art of compression, of saying in a few well-chosen words, enhanced with rhythm and musicality of language what ...

"And I'm in a good place with Arnold, and that's really important to ... on MS." She has used her public voice for causes all her life. But her poetry, she says, is her private voice – and this time, ...

Nursery rhymes teach children all manner of things using the language of poetry, writes Australian author and researcher ...

In “Authority,” celebrated and provocative critic Andrea Long Chu writes about fiction, TV, video games and the politics of criticism ...