Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a valentine poem.

Honduran native Daniel Letona immigrated to the Boston area to build a high-tech career. He also found a community in the ...

How do you write about the life of a man who was “all his life… patiently learning how not to live at all”? Poet, critic, ...

Bayard Public Library Hosts Poetry Workshop and Open Mic with New Mexico Beat Poet Laureate PW Covington ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to ...

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

Before diving into the hype for The Odyssey, check out the 1997 miniseries of the same name from NBC that hits all the major beats of the Homer poem.

All of us as vital as the one light we move through.” Amanda Gorman was just 22 when her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb”, read for Joe Biden’s presidency in 2021, made her a breakout ...

By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...

Here’s an example, in a poem called “Nicholson Baker & I,” from Catherine Barnett’s book “Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space”: “‘Open the second shutter/so that more ...