Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

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

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 — ...

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

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

FSU poetry professor James Kimbrell headlined The Jerome Stern Reading Series at The Bark, sharing work from his latest collection of poems.

Over a career that’s now in its seventh decade, Frederick Seidel has published nearly 20 notable collections of poetry—work ...

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 ...