"So many heartfelt moments, particularly from like the young boys of color," Nicco Diaz said, one of the five judges at the ...

Love poems didn’t start as private confessions. For much of their history, they were closer to public performances—tools for politics, status, ...

Katie Kemple fell in love with poetry as a child, when her father first read to her T.S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of ...

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RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. — The city of Riviera Beach hosted a free youth summit Saturday in hopes to provide an artistic and creative outlet by writing poetry. The workshop at the Marina Village was open ...

John Ernest, chair of the Department of English at the University of Delaware, wants to bring poetry to life, so sometimes he’ll start his classes with a dramatic reading of a poem. On more than one ...

The award-winning poet, whose forthcoming book, Night Owl, will be published in March, will be participate in two talks ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi’s Poet Laureate Catherine Pierce will host the Mississippi Young Writers Poetry Festival, a culmination of her statewide K-12 poetry-writing initiative and competition My ...