Andrea Gibson, a Poet of Love, Hope and Gender Identity, Dies at 49 A master of spoken-word performance, Gibson insisted that poetry, especially when read aloud to an audience, was a political act.

Book review ‘The Missing Prayer’: Personal tragedies in poems evoke painful histories of the Indian subcontinent Poet Ammar Aziz also pays a loving tribute to his mother tongue, Urdu.

This New Orleans poet crafts instant love letters poems for people on her typewriter.

After fame and fallout, Lucy Wightman finds peace and clarity among the birds The former star of the Combat Zone isn’t afraid to ruffle feathers in her new memoir, ‘Princess Cheyenne: My Life ...

Give these famous poems a read What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean love poems? Something longer that you might find in a poetry book ...

The Other Love: Poems Henri Cole. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $16 trade paper (80p) ISBN 978-0-37461-903-9 Cole’s observant follow-up to Gravity and Center finds him living “a cautious, quiet ...

Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

The love between friends deserves to be celebrated. These poems about friendship are sweet, relatable and heartfelt ways to say "I love you." ...

Those at the forum took turns answering questions posed by moderator Khalil Gibran Muhammad, a professor of African American studies and public affairs at Princeton University, who started by ...