Earlier this fall, I wrote a piece about the Poetry Out Loud curriculum, a competition where high school students across the ...

The Intentions of Thunder” includes poems from Smith’s nine collections, as well as new and previously uncollected poems that ...

After decades of work, Daniel Benjamin, an English teacher at Abington Friends School, has released a collection of ...

The intricacies of poetry can be quite remarkable. Carefully crafted form, wording, and symbolism alone are hard to capture ...

Outspoken Saturdays celebrates the diversity of Boston’s creative scene and reminds us that poetry isn’t confined to the page ...

The prolonged absence of parents often places grandparents, as the children's primary caregivers, at the center of their ...

Poetry to explore writing from the woods Hidden in the wood: potash, charcoal, resin, tar. Treasures forgotten. If you don’t recognise it, ...

Interview with Atlanta poet and teacher Theresa Davis, who says poetry “definitely saved parts of me that I think were trying to atrophy." ...

Poetry season is just getting started across the state. Poetry Out Loud is a nationwide competition for high school students, administered by the local arts councils in California. Since 2016, the ...

Poetry is not a practical thing. It's inefficient. It leaves too much space on the page. Its lines are uneven and unpredictable. Its edges are sharp as shards of glass, and what are shards of glass ...