If we’re being honest here, a true starter pack of modern American poetry would look something like this: “Goodnight Moon,” “Where the Sidewalk Ends,” “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.” For many of us poetry ...

In the study, the team systematically dug through preserved poems dating back to the year 618 CE and found hundreds of ...

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information ...

Danez Smith is a 2025 Pulitzer Prize finalist for the poetry book ‘Bluff,’ published by Graywolf Press in Minneapolis.

Kerry Dorey is a multi-hyphenate: he’s an actor and a voice artist; he leads sound baths at Village Yoga; and—between you and me—he’s a member of Pemberton’s growing Secret Poetry ...

Perhaps the most assured poet is O’Reilly, whose poems declare a formal maturity and confidence in strikingly bold but graceful imagery. A couple of list poems here nicely handle momentum and ...

As volunteers wheeled it onto the stage, Boris Taleabong Alemnge recited a poem whose title spoke the unspoken: Death. “The day you die, people will cry,” the 24-year-old told hundreds of ...

A North Carolina group gathers in defense of words banished under Trump, then faces a free speech test of its own.

Legendary singer and songwriter Judy Collins will perform at The Hanover Theatre on May 11. The concert was originally ...

The finals of the Poetry Out Loud high school poetry competition take place in Washington, D.C., this week. NPR asked some of this year's competitors about how to master a poem.