A video reading of the poem, titled "Love Letter From the Afterlife" went viral after Gibson's passing was announced -- with ...

The discomfort of loneliness shapes us in ways we don’t recognize—and we may not like what we become without it.

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages.

Scholars and students have spent nearly a decade documenting and digitizing a vast, first-of-its-kind repository for hundreds ...

How is it that some of us are privileged and many are not? This subject is at the heart of a new collection of poetry.

When children write poetry, they often jump in with only a vague idea then follow where it leads — adults can do that, too, ...

Welcome mats bearing the legend “difficult” and “allusive” are the ones often placed by critics at the door of T. S. Eliot’s ...

In partnership with The Poetry Project, a global mental health initiative created by UK writer James McInerney, the ...

A master of spoken-word performance, Gibson insisted that poetry, especially when read aloud to an audience, was a political act.

NEW YORK (AP) — Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn has a book coming out next year that reveals how she has been shaped by the power ...

As Wisconsin’s newest poet laureate, Brenda Cárdenas is traveling around the state with a mission: inspiring creativity ...

Brenda Cárdenas is Wisconsin’s newest poet laureate. As the state’s ambassador for poetry, the Milwaukee native hopes to inspire creativity through workshops, projects and meeting with young people.