The words of these Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America ...

As I weaved through the verses, I felt myself steadying on stage, anticipating the next line and delivering it with just the ...

You can read Minneapolis poet Danez Smith’s work in two new books or, if you happen to be in New York, on subway walls.

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 ...

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

We also seek to showcase the work of women poets and poets beyond gender binaries and those who write in languages other than ...

Everyone has a story to tell. Out of more than 400 entries from across the country, writers who put pen to paper, or perhaps ...

Yuka Kanzaki decided to translate poems composed by a woman with cerebral palsy to send ... although she uses English at work on a daily basis. She was nervous at first but decided to take on ...

‘The Angel in the House’ was a poem written in 1858 by Coventry Patmore as ... they are not so far away after all. The invisibility of women and societal attitudes to the work done by women has ...

Twelve poets from the “Seeing Things” poetry workshop will showcase their work in celebration of their new anthology, “Seeing ...

A hymn to mercy and love, “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” springs to my lips when my heart is quiet. I teach it ...

You might think that a novelist who works in more than one language would want language itself to become conceptual, ...