Today is national "Poem in Your Pocket" day. The idea is you are supposed to memorize or carry around your favorite poem to share with anybody who will listen. Please post yours here! I know mine ...

Marshall James Kavanaugh takes a battered old typewriter to a park and lets people give him a prompt for a poem. They walk away with a piece of art.

In a journal kept in 1798, when she and her famous brother William lived at Alfoxden, in the Quantock Hills of Somerset, Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855) recorded a March day spent, as so often, ...

Tied to the day, or the season, or just individual taste, the poems are drawn from the deep traditions of English verse: the great work of the past and the living poets who keep those traditions alive ...

Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day," celebrating the winter solstice, is also a children's book illustrated by Carson Ellis. They collaborated by mail.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — An evening of “Poetry in the Bowl” at Highland Park was held on Friday. The event concluded Rochester’s 2025 three-day Poetry Festival with nationally renowned and ...

Today, we help you pay attention to the sound and feel of this week’s poem. Play our game to see how much you’ve already learned.

Marianne Moore's poem "The Camperdown Elm," and standing before the tree itself on a beautiful day in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, poet Gary Glazner led a recitation.

Doris Hernandez reads from a notebook of poems that she wrote to help her cope with the loss of her son, who was killed in 2012 in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, on May 9, 2024 ...

Poem-a-Day subscribes about 300,000 readers, according to Walton. "It is a big deal for poets in general, and for me specifically," he said. "It's an honor to be recognized by the Academy." The ...