April is National Poetry Month. In the midst of a pandemic, this year’s celebrations have either been suspended, or the organizers have become more creative in their planning. Where most towns across ...

In 1991, following the sudden death of his first wife, Susan, Mike Bernhardt began writing poetry as a way to deal with his grief. In the poem “Sunday,” he writes, “Together, we survived the ...

A meditation on the death of a beloved grandparent and a partner in the space of a single weekend that is also an ode to ...

In 2016, Jos Charles began writing a long poem called "a Year," which is broken up into sections by month. "Months allow one to consider time in discrete chunks while at the same time being very silly ...

Young (Dear Darkness) is not only a prolific and acclaimed poet, but also the editor of several anthologies of poems, by African-American poets, inspired by the blues and jazz, and from the body of ...

How great my grief, my joys how few, Since first it was my fate to know thee? With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by the Sun’s poetry editor, Joseph ...

(CBS4) – Kiya Cockrell thought she was headed to Washington D.C. to represent Colorado in the national Poetry Out Loud competition when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Now she's had to graduate virtually ...

The emotional trauma of miscarriage is often overlooked when it comes to hopeful fathers, and writer Frederick Joseph wants to change that. In his new book of poetry, "We Alive, Beloved," Joseph, 35, ...