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

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Constance (Connie) Levy, who lives in St. Louis in a neighborhood of trees, birds, squirrels and other creatures she welcomes into her poems.

“The churning, burning world needs poets,” Wharton said. “Poets express the human experience in lyrical words. Metaphor in ...

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

Today, as an active writer and consumer of poetry, I know that it can be an incredibly powerful tool in promoting social ...

Honduran native Daniel Letona immigrated to the Boston area to build a high-tech career. He also found a community in the ...

By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...

The poet says that while censorship in a dictatorship is nothing new, the same in a democracy feels like entering a new totalitarianism ...

Inorganic and organic, pain and joy are reconciled in Padel’s poetry through a celebration of diversity, emotional, ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two invigorating releases by Diane Seuss and a dark, posthumous collection by Tove Ditlevsen Alongside Terrance Hayes, Diane Seuss has a strong case to ...

Through my work with young people, I've developed concrete ways to connect with kids who are hurting. Here are just a few of them.