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

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

Maya Angelou’s legacy goes beyond the body of work she shared with the world during her lifetime. Her legacy as one of the greatest writers of all time also embodies the ability she had to hold on to ...

Poetry provides all these treasures and, even if we accept one of them, it restores our ability to cope, and our sense of ...

In this week’s poem, “Slack Tide,” Matthew Bernier meditates on finding and holding an infinitesimal moment of stillness. I ...

The former president wrote of his enduring love for his wife of several decades in a recently resurfaced 1995 poem titled "Rosalynn" Virginia Chamlee is a Politics Writer at PEOPLE. She has been ...

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be ...

Acosta is the first full-time director for CantoMundo (“Song-World”), a national Latinx poets organization based in Tempe.

Disgraced actor Kevin Spacey read a poem about a battered boxer at an Italian museum in his first performance since sexual assault charges against him were dropped. Spacey stood next to the bronze ...

A poem once described as a "torrent of four-letter filth" is being performed in the graveyard that inspired it, following the ...

Call it the yuck of the Irish. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi earned eye rolls Thursday by reading a St. Patrick’s Day poem by Irish musician Bono that declared Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a ...

Recite these cozy Christmas poems to share the holiday spirit and make even your Grinchiest loved ones say, "Ho, ho, ho!" Snow-tipped chimneys, fresh pine, lively carols and gifts wrapped with care: ...