In this week of the Presidential Inauguration, it must be said that poetry serves another function when deployed in public: it is classy, it adds tone and the aura of high-minded literary prestige.

Fourth-grader Cade Maxwell stood confidently before a room filled with his peers from First Odessa Christian Academy and their parents and began to read a poem from his self-authored book, “The Buddy ...

HAGERSTOWN -- Crystal Brown's devotion to poetry took her into the war zone. Now she brings her poetry, stories and writing lessons to area children. It was a slightly overcast summer day, and kids ...

As National Poetry Month comes to a close, we’re closing up our poetry inbox. All month, we’ve invited people to send us their own original poems, responding to a prompt each week. We’ve heard from ...

Laguna Beach makes art look easy, but city officials learned over the last year that one form of art is actually quite difficult: poetry. The official poet laureate program is wrapping up its ...

Join us at 11:00 for a National Poetry Day 2022 Live Lesson! We want to hear how your pupils use their senses to describe their environment. Send ideas from your 7-11 year-olds to ...

What prompted the idea for the course? I’ve often found poetry to be a good way to teach law students about the power of particular details, as well as the efficient elegance of compact language. At ...

The Beastie Boys called it the “drop” and Carlos Andres Gomez knows it as “the Pinch,” but everyone knows the buildup to the moment the music pauses and then switches to the part that never fails to ...

Swimming Lessons, out now, captures "different emotions, different heartaches and different loves I've experienced at different times," Lili Reinhart tells PEOPLE Lili Reinhart can’t keep quiet. “If I ...

With minimal staffs and tiny budgets, independent poetry presses exist on the margins of the publishing world. But that fringe existence allows them to take wild risks and create new models for ...