How is it that some of us are privileged and many are not? This subject is at the heart of a new collection of poetry.

In honor of the city's bicentennial, Jacksonville poet laureate Andy Mitchell is writing a series of poems centered on the ...

About 35,000 Michigan K-12 students experience homelessness each year. Detroit teen Charisma Holly tells her story.

Kelsey Parker has shared a deeply emotional message with fans following the tragic loss of her stillborn son at nine months.

In the stillness of dawn, just as the sun began to stretch its light across the sky, my grandmother would already be rising ...

This week’s guest on “Poetry from Daily Life” is Joseph Bruchac, who lives in Greenfield Center, New York. Joe has been writing since his 2nd grade teacher, Mrs. Monthony, praised one of his poems.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. Jonathan Farmer: Why did you decide to start writing about poems? A.O. Scott: I’ve always been interested in poetry.

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly called The Independent. “On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam ...

These 6 poems capture the essence of unrequited love. Share them with that special someone who doesn't feel the same way, but ...

This week my dear friend, Penny, sent me a powerful poem, read beautifully by an older woman, my age or older I presume, on Instagram. Titled “Let Them,” it spoke directly to my heart in a ...

It may not always be in the form of a published poem on a piece of paper, but the presence of poetry is interwoven throughout our days.