Cecily Parks started writing the poems that would become The Seeds about a decade ago. Now it's finally finished and out in ...

When David Harrison originally asked me to write my first column for “Poetry from Daily Life,” I spoke of Harry Bliss’ New Yorker cartoon: he draws a lady introducing her son as a poet. The folks ...

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 ...

Primate scientist Jane Goodall, who died this month at 91, argued that old age should nudge us to stay busy, not slow down.

There was a time, not too long ago, when many people could only name one, maybe two, poets – often a long-dead White man named William Shakespeare, Robert Frost or Walt Whitman. Meanwhile, the Lincoln ...

Long before Jessie Reyez was celebrated for her voice, poetry was the Toronto-bred musician's “first love.” The ...

Poetry provides all these treasures and, even if we accept one of them, it restores our ability to cope, and our sense of ...

April is National Poetry Month—perhaps a good time to review the positive aspects of reading and writing poems. Poetry is a genre of writing in which succinct, vivid, and intense language is given to ...

A Fruita poet has won a western Colorado poetry prize and, in a poetic twist, her husband was a finalist for the same award.