MONTEVIDEO - Two Montevideo brothers have taken on a challenge as big as getting kids to eat their vegetables. Which is kind of how they describe their goal of introducing regular folks to poetry.

For centuries, poets have turned to autumn as a mirror for the human condition, a season oscillating between abundance and ...

Cynthia Rose discovered her first book of poetry at a yard sale with her late mother. She purchased a tattered copy of the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe, and started writing her own poetry around ...

I rarely find poetry immersive. I, like many people, have taken my fair share of English and workshop classes, and often when ...

Expert astrologers have paired each birth month with a classic poem that reflects the essence of one's soul. Read on to ...

Let’s begin with the title. “Bluff” — the name of Danez Smith’s fourth collection of poetry, and first since January 2020 — represents a cliff or aerie, a high point from which to take a broader view.

Vivian Stolz, a 19 year old college student in Rochester, wrote this poem after taking many walks on campus this fall, inspired by the brilliant fall weather, colors, and vivacity. She regrets that ...

What is it about life’s big and little moments that calls for a poem? At weddings. At funerals. On greeting cards. In church. On the radio. At moments of great happiness or deep sadness. At beginnings ...

We tend to think of John Keats as, in Lucasta Miller’s provocative phrase, “the most romantic of the Romantic poets.” He’s the pure soul—so the legend goes—who died at only 25, penniless, passionately ...

American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States at the Capitol in Washington Jan. 20, 2021. She is a parishioner at St. Brigid ...