Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” ...

The greatest casualty of our education system? Poetry. Either you’re from an older generation and you know a few lines by ...

I’m a fan of narrative poems, poems that tell a story. As I see it, that’s how poetry started, with epic poems that had to be memorized to be passed down, as people didn’t have printing presses or ...

Poet and author Stephanie Oakey debuts her first book, Poems of a Southern Nobody, a collection of over 60 poems that explores the kinship between nature, people, and time. She paints a vivid picture ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for when you ...

A poet on the Isle of Man says her poems in Manx "are part of my identity and are there for others who want to take the language up". Former teacher Annie Kissack, who was appointed the fifth Manx ...

Just as Martha Hatch Balph’s book of poems, “The Entire Sky,” represents just that — both avian and otherwise — it represents ...

The voice of one of Virginia’s most loved and outspoken poets, Nikki Giovanni, is featured in a new multimedia art exhibit at ...

WORCESTER — "Poems in and out of Places" will be shared at 6 p.m. June 17 at the Museum of Worcester, 30 Elm St. in a program that is part of the museum's current "The Poem Next Door" exhibition. In ...