Arthur Sze, the national poet laureate appointed by the Library of Congress last month, visited Queens College, in Flushing, ...

Poetry is rising in popularity in the UK as social media drives an unexpected renaissance in the often overlooked genre. Last year, sales of poetry books reached £14.4 million – their highest since ...

Kate North does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

My acquaintance with Keats began awkwardly. It was the spring semester of my sophomore year at college, and I was taking British Literature, which meant I spent a lot of time with the tissue-thin ...

April is National Poetry Month—perhaps a good time to review the positive aspects of reading and writing poems. Poetry is a genre of writing in which succinct, vivid, and intense language is given to ...

Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” ...

I can’t be but thrilled at the prospect of the first of a series of New Yorker Poetry Podcasts. For decades, The New Yorker has led the field of poetry in print journalism. But the eye is not the only ...

Gabbie Hanna wears a lot of hats. She's a singer, YouTuber, actress, and, with the release of her September 2017 book Adultolescence, an author. Hanna has penned multiple poetry books, and they've ...

I remember the first time I picked up Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends in my elementary school library. It was filled with delightfully clever and funny rhymes, and the words danced off my ...