Caleb Cano is a student at RCTC taking a creative writing class. He was asked to write a poem based on his childhood.

Shel Silverstein was one of the most talented poets of the last century. If you were a kid who grew up in America, you grew up with his songs, poems, and maybe one or two cartoons that he made, too.

Poet Curt Curtin was well known in Worcester's poetry circles. His wife and collaborator, Dee O'Connor, talks about two ...

Spurning the free verse of many of his contemporaries, he held to an older tradition. He also wrote spirited poems for ...

The Wall Street Journal examines the poem, "Only Child," by Billy Collins, from his new book, "The Rain in Portugal" (Random House, Oct. 4). Below the poem, Collins describes his inspiration for the ...

When Sarah Rose Nordgren looks back at her childhood, she calls it “distinctive,” filled with myth and fable. “I’ve always been interested in things like myth and fable because I’ve always been ...

This Bachelor star was a poet and fans didn't know it. On Monday, Lauren Burnham shared Arie Luyendyk Jr.'s childhood poem on Instagram, and the throwback will make Bachelor Nation laugh. Her ...