Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — ...

Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a friend poem.

"All That We Ask of You Is To Always Be Happy," Durham poet Bridget Bell's debut collection, comes out on February 4.

In celebration of National Poetry Month, Write Action is sponsoring a special 2025 Poems Around Town event, and has issued a call for poetry submissions.

Watch the celebrated actress recite Maria Woodford’s ‘elegy for a nissan micra’ which came out on top in this year’s time-themed contest ...

As a chance to hear Chang discuss her poetic process, Agu thought the event was an opportunity that couldn’t be passed up.

Through poetry, Ariv Gupta shows how being your true self is the key to connection. The third-year computer science student ...

Then I turn to the poem on the next page and the story disappears. So, as we write poems, it’s important to remember that we’re really telling these stories of a moment. The question we should ...