Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a home poem.

We share 5 top tips to help you take your poetry to the next level, with advice from award-winning poet and UAL Short Courses ...

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 ...

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 — ...

Drawing on her experiences as a teenager, North Shore High School junior Lucia Cagno published her first poetry collection, ...

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

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

On Feb. 4, The Bark's Jerome Stern Reading Series spotlighted esteemed Florida State University poetry professor James "Jimmy" Kimbrell. Kimbrell read a collection of old and new poems to an audience ...

In celebration of National Poetry Month, Write Action is sponsoring a special 2025 Poems Around Town event, and has issued a call for poetry submissions.

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 ...