So begins a poem, titled “The Cowboy,” about a real-life folk hero of sorts: Ben Ellingson, the 5-year-old who helped find ...

The poet laureate will serve as an ambassador for the arts to promote creative expression and inspire writers across the ...

A first ever Massachusetts poet laureate will be selected sometime this year. Poetry "enriches the civic life of ...

The eclectic prose of Logan’s hidden poets filled WhySound on Jan. 23 during WhySlam, a recurring slam poetry competition ...

The City of Dayton has selected its first-ever poet laureate. Sierra Leona will serve as Dayton’s first poet laureate. Leone ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama about a new poetry anthology he edited called "44 Poems on Being with Each Other" and his own collection called "Kitchen Hymns." ...

Louis. ~ David L. Harrison Many classroom visits ago, a second-grade boy rose from his seat as I was introducing a poem and called out, “Don’t talk, just do the poems!” With that in mind I ...

An Evening of Poetry was held on the second floor of the MSU Union on Feb. 5. The event was hosted by the Department of Art, ...

Njeri Wangari does Kenya's animals justice in this book, in which she talks about their characteristics in a witty, rhyming ...

Bronx poet Roya Marsh is celebrating the Feb. 4 release of her second collection, “savings time,” described as a “love letter ...

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 — the Mona Lisa is the story of a woman’s smile; the ceiling of the Sistine ...

Understanding the subject of a poem The first thing you should do when given a poem is read its title carefully. The title should give you some ideas of the poem’s subject, tone, or genre.