Emily Igwike, a senior at the University School of Milwaukee, was selected as the youth poet laureate by Woodland Pattern Book Center’s competitive program last year. Milwaukee’s first-ever youth poet ...

April is National Poetry Month. To celebrate and inform, here is a list of 10 of the best and most influential living Black poets. Furthermore, we’ve included the title of some of the most famous work ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Founded in 1910, the Poetry Society of America is the country’s oldest national poetry ...

April is National Poetry Month. To celebrate and enlighten, here is a list of 10 of the best and most influential Black poets of all-time. We’ve also included the title of some of the most famous work ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- Volumes of poetry "in the world, we will never see," but poet Jane Hirshfield is "absolutely sure" that the fact these poems even exist "changes the air we breathe and the [world] we ...

Robert Bly, known for his protests against the Vietnam war and a controversial men's movement, died at his home in Minneapolis at age 94, the New York Times reported. Bly authored more than 50 books, ...

In some of his most important speeches over the course of a long career, Joe Biden has repeatedly quoted the work of Seamus Heaney, an Irish, Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright. And while ...

The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded Thursday to a psychologist who used his spare time to craft sparsely written poems about the mysteries of everyday life — commuting to work, watching the sun ...