What may at first glance seem like a simple nature poem holds a deeper meaning that can teach children a lot about our world. First published in 1846, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “The Mountain and the ...

Maya Angelou, considered one of the best poets in history, signs copies of "Maya Angelou: Letter to My Daughter" at Barnes & Noble in Union Square on October 30, 2008 in New York City. Poetry is a ...

First awarded in 1992, the Forward Prizes for Poetry are awarded for new poetry published in the U.K. and Ireland. For the ...

A teenager has said it feels "surreal" to have been crowned as a young poet of the year. Ellanya Sivasubramaniam, 15, from Reading, entered this year's Foyle Young Poets competition with her poem ...

Short, straightforward poetry is TikTok’s latest literary trend, attracting plenty of fans and critics alike, though some poets say the popularity of poems as short as one sentence long has made it ...

How do I love thee? Let me count the page views. If traffic at the Poetry Foundation’s website is any indication, modern love is romantic, nostalgic, morbid and ironic — in roughly that order. A list ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition? Think again.

The Louisiana Book Festival has announced its full slate of programs featuring poets and poetry on Saturday, November 1, in ...

Poetry isn’t as popular as it used to be. However, it’s still one of the most important and creative forms of literature. As it turns out, it’s fairly difficult to mess up a poetry app, apparently.

Thanks to the internet we have the numbers to prove poetry is still a popular medium — at least online. The Academy of American Poets has announced that the Palestinian-American poet Naomi Shihab ...