Students at Agawam High School had an inspiring day on Dec. 4 when the creative skills of students in English and art classes ...

A local preacher's bouts with anxiety in recent years set him on the search for an outlet that would allow the tortured soul to communicate his thoughts, life lessons and apprehensions without ...

When I first began performing poems as a 17-year-old in 2008, I had barely seen any spoken word, and neither had any of my friends. These days, when I speak to the diverse range of teenagers in the ...

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of ...

Lue Morgan (pictured on the far right) a senior at Woodland Public Schools' alternative TEAM High School, recently organized a poetry slam as a way for them and their classmates to have an opportunity ...

“Don’t allow being a woman or a person of color limit you,” Lena Fields-Arnold said. From the time her poetry was praised by her fifth-grade teacher at Belmont Elementary School in the 1970s, local ...

We'll admit it: poetry isn't always accessible. Poetry collections can be dense and difficult to interpret, and — though usually short in length — they can still contain volumes. However, there's a ...

Maya Angelou, considered one of the best poets in history, signs copies of "Maya Angelou: Letter to My Daughter" at Barnes & Noble in Union Square on October 30, 2008 in New York City. Poetry is a ...

On Instagram, there is a poet who is capturing the attention of many with her poems. From the porch of her Kentucky home, a mindful poet delves into creation as what’s now known as one of the most ...

Janet McCormick Harrington is not a professional poet. She has written down verses over the years and simply tucked them away. One day, her daughter gathered them and published them. The poems tell a ...

Instagram poet Kayil Crow is no stranger to being let down and having to pick herself up again. Try, fail, and try again — don't ever give up. That idealistic motto is a common theme throughout her ...