Julie Swarstad Johnson, an archivist and librarian at the University of Arizona Poetry Center, has served as poet in ...

These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on ...

Earth Day is more than just a date on the calendar—it’s an opportunity for kids to think about their role in protecting the ...

Tony Brown is a poet living in Worcester. Among other accolades, he was the 2022 Stanley Kunitz Medal recipient.

A nearly month-long mission is ready to lift off, with preparations being made at the Kennedy Center. To be clear, not NASA's ...

As Mandelstam wrote, “Poetry is the plough that turns up time, so that the deepest layer, its black earth, is on top.” Read More: How Insecurity Became the New Inequality It’s not just a ...

And builds a road from earth to sky, Is prettier far than these. One of the most deceptively simple short poems, Christina Rossetti’s “Boats Sail on the Rivers” cleverly suggests that nature ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...