In this week of the Presidential Inauguration, it must be said that poetry serves another function when deployed in public: it is classy, it adds tone and the aura of high-minded literary prestige.

Fourth-grader Cade Maxwell stood confidently before a room filled with his peers from First Odessa Christian Academy and their parents and began to read a poem from his self-authored book, “The Buddy ...

One night in the fall of 2002, I was out to dinner at a Mexican restaurant with the poet Derek Walcott, who had been my professor in the graduate poetry program at Boston University. Another of my ...

As National Poetry Month comes to a close, we’re closing up our poetry inbox. All month, we’ve invited people to send us their own original poems, responding to a prompt each week. We’ve heard from ...

In his 1974 anthology Revolution of the World: A New Gathering of American Avant Garde Poetry 1914–1945, Jerome Rothenberg introduced American poet Bob Brown to those of us of a certain generation, ...

For a semester in college I tried out being a poet. I had not written many poems before, and have hardly written one since, but I sent in an application to the English department and found myself, one ...

Hope at Hand provides therapeutic poetry lessons for at-risk youth populations in North Florida. Founded by veteran educator Steffani Hendricks Fletcher in 2009, Hope at Hand combines poetry and art ...

Swimming Lessons, out now, captures "different emotions, different heartaches and different loves I've experienced at different times," Lili Reinhart tells PEOPLE Lili Reinhart can’t keep quiet. “If I ...

Laguna Beach makes art look easy, but city officials learned over the last year that one form of art is actually quite difficult: poetry. The official poet laureate program is wrapping up its ...

With minimal staffs and tiny budgets, independent poetry presses exist on the margins of the publishing world. But that fringe existence allows them to take wild risks and create new models for ...