Poetry is a form of literature that will, without doubt, outlive us all. Simplistic yet beautiful, poetry is a fun and creative way to express how we’re feeling or how we wish we felt. Sometimes, ...

It isn’t merely love that’s blind. The love poet, too, can be heard stumbling and blundering about, sightless and ecstatic, as another Valentine’s Day dawns. Robert Graves—these days, perhaps best ...

Nayyirah Waheed is an Instapoet who shares her insights and thoughts of the world through poetry she shares on Instagram. With over 460k followers, and more than 100 posts, she's taking words to the ...

Chronicling the Colorado poet laureate's relationship, work and battle with cancer, Ryan White's Sundance-premiering film is ...

Love has a way of gathering humanity. When I think about what it takes to be a good global citizen, the word “love” is at the center of that tree. If our tree for love had branches, they would remind ...

From an early age, K Love the Poet felt a deep responsibility to nurture and uplift those around her. As a child, she gathered neighborhood kids on her porch, braided their hair, and took them to the ...

K Love the Poet is a spoken word artist, motivational speaker. She made her poetry debut in 2003 in the heart of Chicago. Since 2015 she has had more than three videos to go viral. She is well known ...

One of the many clichés about poetry is that it is an art with just two subjects: love and death. Mark Strand, who died on Saturday at 80, duly addressed love and death in his poems, but in radically ...

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — April is National Poetry Month and for Missouri's sixth poet laureate, this month is her Olympics. "I just love poetry," Maryfrances Wagner said. Wagner is a poet, a teacher and ...