This year marks the first time a Rockford-area student has won in the Illinois Poetry Out Loud state competition in its ...

"They paved paradise, put up a parking lot." That iconic line from Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi” remains timeless because there never seems to be a shortage of nature or culture flattened by greed ...

“Original Sins,” “Strike,” “Notes on Surviving the Fire,” and “There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die.” ...

Poets Safia Elhillo, Jamila Woods and members of the Stanford Spoken Word Collective shared poems both personal and political ...

Chicharra Poetry Slam Festival returns to Albuquerque for five days this week, drawing over 75 of the top poets and spoken ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with John Himmelman about his new collection of illustrated poems for children, "The Boy Who Lived in a Shell: Snippets for Wandering Minds." ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

A: We Are Devo, (which I ran to the record store to buy the next afternoon), “Jocko Homo,” the alien concepts of Devo was fully enveloped into pop culture. A week earlier, the composers of ...

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.

He didn’t read book reviews—or so he claimed—and he didn’t write them, preferring instead to let his poems find their natural audience, which turned out to be a wide one. He mocked ...