Poet and performance artist John Giorno launched Dial-a-Poem in the 1960s to deliver random poems over the phone. Now, a ...

Poetry isn't as scary as you think. These 14 collections of poems tackle everything from grief and race to family and love.

This week’s poem, John Paul Caponigro’s “Worms,” is only partially a poem about eating worms. It is also an example of a ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) holds an indelible place in American literary history. As one of the first ...

What would an acorn write to an oak tree? Or a coat to her button? A child to his toes? A pebble to the river? Dear Acorn, ...

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Gabrielle Calvocoressi will find out if her poetry collection "The New Economy" is the winner of the 2025 National Book Award ...

Robert Krut grew up devouring books by Raymond Carver and the Beat Poets, heavily influenced by the short story writer’s sparse prose and the latters’ collective bent toward romantic fearlessness. To ...

Amanda Gorman read her poem, "The Hill We Climb," at the Biden-Harris ceremony. Amanda Gorman made history Wednesday as the youngest poet in recent history to read a poem at a presidential ...