He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

They’re often more relatable than, say, poems about love and loss. We spend all our lives passing by and living in nature, ...

No other season evokes such joy, love and wistful nostalgia, and we’ve selected 15 Christmas poems that perfectly capture all those sentiments with a pretty ribbon on top. As a longtime poetry ...

Tank and the Bangas brings its dynamic blend of poetry, hip-hop, gospel, funk and rock to Variety Playhouse on April 17.

Poetry is a form of writing designed to evoke emotions as you read aloud or to yourself. That sounds very complicated. Where do you start with that? How about subject? All poems need to be about ...

It’s not just that we’re in an economic meltdown. It’s how we got here that blows,” writes columnist Stephanie Finucane.

What I love about poetry is that you can perform it anywhere. There are performances spaces all around us. In the bedroom. In the playground. I ….was…. at…. the ...