It’s been described as embarrassing, clichéd or “unhelpful singsong.” Many poets dislike it too, but it’s a style they’ve learned from each other.

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

X.J. Kennedy, a poet, author, translator and educator whose many awards include an Los Angeles Times Book Prize, has died at ...

Nearly a dozen middle and high school students got on stage today in hopes of their poetry performance getting themselves to ...

The spoken word event featured poet Sarah Kay and performances from Stanford’s Spoken Word Collective, which disentangled ...

Poetry events kicked up after a slight respite for the holidays. I attended the Blue Whale Reading two weeks ago, featuring ...

The result was Poems on the Underground, a project that turns 40 this year and has been copied in cities around the world.

Virginia’s Lt. Gov-elect Ghazala Hashmi (D) holds a PhD in poetry and selected five poems for fellow Democrats that brought her comfort over the past year.

In the author photo for “Time Will Tell,” his newly collected poems, David Middleton greets readers with a pen in his left ...

The Chicago Bears are more than just a football team; they’re a part of the city’s identity.”— Matthew Ballard CHICAGO, ...

Is it possible to translate poetry from one language into another without losing meaning? To paraphrase Robert Frost — not really. "Poetry is what gets lost in translation," the American poet is often ...

Nilo Cruz is, first and foremost, a poet.