Let’s face it. You’re not Wordsworth. But don’t you ever find yourself in need of a poem to express your love for your boyfriend or husband, can’t seem to write one that sounds genuine and are totally ...

When the earthquake and tsunami struck Japan in March 2011, Yuri Yamamoto was living far from home. She was born in Tokyo, but has lived in North Carolina since the '80s. Even so, she felt a need to ...

My all-time favorite poet, Edgar Allan Poe, has a few really amazing poems. Anytime somebody asks me that, he’s the first person I think about because he was an unconventional writer in life. This ...

Poetry allows us to explore the depths of what means to be human. It evokes emotion, imagination, and connection between author and reader. Perhaps because these compositions represent the most human ...

It’s #WorldPoetryDay! Celebrate with us by enjoying these examples of incredible literature and personal expression by poets from across the African continent. Bassey Ikpi, a Nigerian-born but America ...

This enormous, in some ways groundbreaking, anthology shows the range and depth of verse about the captivity, enslavement and sometime freedom of peoples of African descent in the English-speaking ...

I'm going to think I'm being clever here and ask you a question similar to one you asked poet W.D. Snodgrass when you interviewed him for The American Poetry review in 1986, when you said you looked ...