By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

I have met so many good people of Petersburg, and I love the great possibilities that the city has on the horizon' ...

In his follow-up to the award-winning The Final Year, poet Matt Goodfellow continues his mission to reach and give a voice to ...

One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — ...

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

“The churning, burning world needs poets,” Wharton said. “Poets express the human experience in lyrical words. Metaphor in ...

The Adirondack Center for Writing will host the regional semifinals of the National Poetry Out Loud competition. This national program gives students in grades 9-12 the opportunity to perform poetry ...

FSU poetry professor James Kimbrell headlined The Jerome Stern Reading Series at The Bark, sharing work from his latest collection of poems.

Then I turn to the poem on the next page and the story disappears. So, as we write poems, it’s important to remember that we’re really telling these stories of a moment. The question we should ...