After reading through the exuberant poems in Barbara Crooker’s ninth book, I began to look at the world with different eyes. I found small, seemingly ordinary things to praise and felt myself ...

When life’s tempests overwhelm the heart, what enables us to endure? How do we keep going? The 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson addressed this question in a poem called “‘Hope’ is the thing ...

Thousands of years ago, humankind figured out how to transform one of our greatest inventions into infinite beauty, and language gave way to poetry. From the prehistoric poems of the Nile ...

Tumultuous times create heightened, often complex, emotions. It can be hard to voice or even identify our feelings when faced with war, illness, worry, or great changes of any kind. Poetry offers many ...

Philadelphia poet laureate Trapeta B. Mayson on Monday launched the Healing Verse Philly Poetry Line (1-855-763-6792), a toll-free telephone line that offers callers a 90-second poem by a Philadelphia ...

I recently taught a short six-class course for Homeschool Connections on “Poems Every Catholic Should Know.” The text for the course was my book of the same title, which is an anthology of Christian ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At the FTWeekend Festival on September 5, in a session called “How the Light Gets In: Poetry of Hope and ...

Blackout poetry might be an unfamiliar writing form to you, but Instagram Poet, John Carroll is making this style of poetry more accessible to readers online. With the release of Carroll's new ...

And washers took down pinned sheets. Bankers with briefcases in hand walked silently into their cars, While children dreamed of leaving this place and flying off to Mars. Walking into a store was like ...

With his new book of poetry about race in America, Morning Edition poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander hopes to "shine a little light for the world." In the book, Light For The World To See: A Thousand ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...