Or maybe a poem has eased you into the mood for a trip, or brought back travel memories once you’re home. The most interesting poems and feedback we get will be included in a future Travel ...

In a powerful performance called "Come Home" at a Button Poetry Live event, Kevin Yang chose the latter three. He is tired of Americans questioning his heritage or connection to the United States ...

Our critic A.O. Scott marvels at the power and paradox of a sonnet by Gwendolyn Brooks. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Here’s a poem about patience, about self-control, about the need to conserve ...

I hope my poetry takes Jamaicans everywhere back home.” Her new collection of poems, Native Dawta (Kingston Publishers, $8.95), is dedicated to “all Jamaicans, scattered abroad.” ...

Marshall reaches back to scenes from Bishop’s earliest days, starting with the very first words on her life: her birth on Feb. 8, 1911 in Worcester, as recorded in a red baby book.

Sondra Honore explained how her garden home off Old Hammond Highway was a longtime dream for her. She saved up money for years when she needed Section 8 vouchers to live in apartments and ...