Thanksgiving poems full of gratitude Thanksgiving often inspires us to get a little poetic. Thinking and speaking about the ...

Poets.org: Welcome to the Guest Editor Q&A, hosted by the Academy of American Poets. I’m Mary Sutton, senior content editor at the Academy, and I’m here today with the Guest Editor for November, Laura ...

Musicians have long taken inspiration from poetry for their work; here are four rock songs that pull from well-known poems.

My guest this week on "Poetry from Daily Life" — marking a full year of weekly columns — is Lola Haskins, who lives in Gainesville, Florida. She discovered her love for poetry when she was ...

My guest this weekend on Poetry from Daily Life is William Trowbridge, who lives in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. Bill says he came late into writing poetry. He was studying for his PhD comps when ...

With few writing programs that cater exclusively to students in high school, Smith’s Creative Writing Workshop allows you to explore your writing in a creative and supportive environment. This program ...

Chief among the insights we gain from reading history is that what we read is often relevant to what we are experiencing ...

The 2024 Mic Check Poetry Fest, billed as a two-day celebration of spoken word and its power to bear witness, create ...

The blind bard Homer (a poet born around around 850BC) invoked her with the words “Sing, daughter of Zeus” in the first lines of his epic poem ... source of inspiration. Though writing ...

Studio Ghibli movie to bring your kids along to. Unless you want to eternally scar them with the grisly consequences of war ...

"Southern Voices," edited by Tom Mack and Drew Geyer, is an anthology of "sense of place" poems from Southern writers, including SC's Glenis Redmond, Ed Madden ...