A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to poet in residence Kwame Alexander, who shares his latest community crowd-sourced poem about the goals that teachers, parents and students have set for themselves. Back for ...

There is a poem in the midst of St. Peter’s B-List: Contemporary Poems Inspired by the Saints that moves me to tears whenever I read it. Sometimes I save it for the end of a day that has been a grind, ...

I recently taught a short six-class course for Homeschool Connections on “Poems Every Catholic Should Know.” The text for the course was my book of the same title, which is an anthology of Christian ...

This is not poetry for pity, applause, or analysis. This is poetry as presence. Whether you're searching for romantic poems, poems about grief, poems about hope, or simply the best poems that reflect ...

Emily Dickinson and I have always had a thing. It’s no surprise that a shy girl would find a kindred spirit in the recluse poet from Amherst, Massachusetts. A woman the world neither understood nor ...

As one of many pop-up events in celebration of National Poetry Month, the Five Nevada County Women Poets will, for the ninth year, read poems about hope and history, love and life, the joys and ...