Michelle T. Boone, president and CEO of the Poetry Foundation, will retire after a decades-long career spanning entertainment ...

When we tell the storyof how we survived the collapse, we might say: like birds, we learnedto move as one.We grew lighterand lengthened our wings. These are the final lines of "Dear Human at the Edge ...

By creating a space to take us outside ourselves, poems cast an almost mystical spell. Two new collections prove the point.

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

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 ...

Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s most recent collection, “The New Economy,” was a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry, and one of their poems was included in “A Century of Poetry in The New ...

The poet Diane Seuss and I began a recent conversation by talking about the burdens of companionship—or, at least, how those burdens are manifested through affection for a pet. Seuss lost her dog Bear ...

A non-profit organization founded by a UWS professor is putting a digital spin on poetry. Poetry in the Parks has created an ...

Safia Elhillo was a freshman in high school when she started keeping a diary to record her heartbreaks. All of her entries were poems, so if her parent ever found them, she could hide behind the ...

On January 20, 2021, poet Amanda Gorman read her her poem "The Hill We Climb" during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Patrick Semansky/Pool/AFP via Getty ...