In celebration of National Poetry Month, Write Action is sponsoring a special 2025 Poems Around Town event, and has issued a call for poetry submissions.

George Oppen’s “From a Photograph” turns a wintry snapshot into a moving meditation on parenthood and the passage of time.

It's wrong to think of self-esteem as a quality that depends only on what we say and do. Self-congratulation is no substitute ...

Published on this day in 1845, the work used alliteration, internal rhyme and repetition to draw in readers, lending it a ...

Over a career that’s now in its seventh decade, Frederick Seidel has published nearly 20 notable collections of poetry—work ...

Jacobs, the founder of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry, has written two previously acclaimed collections: Pelvis with ...

I don’t hate this one but I feel like he could do better still. I like the rhyme and it feels like he put a bit of effort into it, I just feel like it’s not very personalised to me. I’d probably give ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Organizers have announced they are now accepting entries for the 10th annual Ode to the ZIP Code poetry ...

The principle of equality is theoretically recognized as one of the fundamental foundations of democracy. Over the years, ...

In Old English, there’s a break in the middle of a line of poetry in which someone strikes a harp. It’s true of the oldest Greek poems, too, like ‘The Iliad’ or ‘The Odyssey,’” Spaar said. If someone ...