When Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian American writer Ilya Kaminsky’s poem “We Lived Happily During the War” went viral across social media. Poetry can often help people make sense of the world in ...

Millennials are up against a few obstacles in terms of reading poetry. First, many of us learned poetry almost exclusively from classic examples. Additionally, we're often taught with the "tie the ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

(NAPSI)-You may be able to bring some comfort to your friends and family members who have been grieving a loss in these difficult days. There’s a new book that can help heal the hearts and minds of ...

Safia Elhillo was a freshman in high school when she started keeping a diary to record her heartbreaks. All of her entries were poems, so if her parent ever found them, she could hide behind the ...

Disaster recovery usually provides the necessities of food and water, but a group of St. Tammany artists wants to meet another critical need as well — poetry. To do that, Slidell poet Dennis Formento ...

Interest in poetry has been rising over the past year, creating an opportunity for renewed community engagement as a new local poet laureate takes the helm. Sign up for the Hello, Houston! daily ...

A Cincinnati woman is using her poetry to help inspire others as well as create meaningful change.Malia Forte said her journey performing poetry began in 2020 when she went to the Martin Luther King ...

This is the fourth in a five-part series about the value of verse in the 21st century. Read the first three installments here, here, and here. In my last post, I looked at how "flarf" might help ...