Fourth-grader Cade Maxwell stood confidently before a room filled with his peers from First Odessa Christian Academy and their parents and began to read a poem from his self-authored book, “The Buddy ...

The poet Larry Fagin, who died in May, was twenty-one years old when he met a young man walking through Paris with a turtle on his shoulder. The year was 1958. The man was the poet and filmmaker Piero ...

On January 17, 2019 the world lost Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and national luminary, Mary Oliver. Oliver's brilliant prose is direct and inspired, linking together the human and natural world. Her ...

For 23 years, A.O. Scott was a film critic for the New York Times. For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ ...

In his 1974 anthology Revolution of the World: A New Gathering of American Avant Garde Poetry 1914–1945, Jerome Rothenberg introduced American poet Bob Brown to those of us of a certain generation, ...

As National Poetry Month comes to a close, we’re closing up our poetry inbox. All month, we’ve invited people to send us their own original poems, responding to a prompt each week. We’ve heard from ...

Swimming Lessons, out now, captures "different emotions, different heartaches and different loves I've experienced at different times," Lili Reinhart tells PEOPLE Lili Reinhart can’t keep quiet. “If I ...

Poetry can be a form of self-care. Poets such as Fariha Róisín, Yrsa Daley-Ward, and even Lana Del Rey have all touched on the healing power of the art form. Over the course of the pandemic, actress ...

With minimal staffs and tiny budgets, independent poetry presses exist on the margins of the publishing world. But that fringe existence allows them to take wild risks and create new models for ...