April is National Poetry Month. In the midst of a pandemic, this year’s celebrations have either been suspended, or the organizers have become more creative in their planning. Where most towns across ...

Young (Dear Darkness) is not only a prolific and acclaimed poet, but also the editor of several anthologies of poems, by African-American poets, inspired by the blues and jazz, and from the body of ...

The final one, Visiting, is a response to the Irish photographer Amelia Stein’s exquisite photo of a high wooden shutter ...

(CBS4) – Kiya Cockrell thought she was headed to Washington D.C. to represent Colorado in the national Poetry Out Loud competition when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Now she's had to graduate virtually ...

In 2016, Jos Charles began writing a long poem called "a Year," which is broken up into sections by month. "Months allow one to consider time in discrete chunks while at the same time being very silly ...

Some of the best poets of spring are masters of the minor key. So it's no surprise that the famously dour Philip Larkin wrote two of the finest... Springtime is the season of renewal, but it can also ...

The emotional trauma of miscarriage is often overlooked when it comes to hopeful fathers, and writer Frederick Joseph wants to change that. In his new book of poetry, "We Alive, Beloved," Joseph, 35, ...

In “Kyrie,” these sonnets published way back in 1995, before I knew poetry or prison, Ellen Bryant Voigt reminds us that there have been pandemics before. There has been that absurd accumulation of ...

At the center of her work is the belief that poetry is art, and like all art, it is filtered through the souls of both the creator and the recipient. Her poems are born from life’s rawest ...

Winter begins tonight, and with the Solstice and a change in the seasons, we invited Vermont poet David Crews to share his thoughts and a poem. Dec 21, 2023 — Winter begins tonight, and with the ...