For the 2024 PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets are tasked with writing a poem a day in the month of before assembling a chapbook ...

Reginald Gibbons — a renowned poet, literary critic and Northwestern University professor — wrote the following poem for the ...

In Jan Donley’s class at Berklee, her students study literature that centers on loss. Loss can make us sad, but it can also help us heal, Donley writes. In the wake of the 2024 presidential election, ...

When I began to listen to poetry, it’s when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think, most importantly for all ...

Friendship poems to celebrate your bestie Birthdays are fantastic occasions, but who says you can’t celebrate friendship any ...

WORD, a spoken word poetry group, held its annual fall show on Saturday, tackling topics like race, gun-violence, sexuality ...

Michael Korda writes a beautiful book in remembrance of the World War I poets whose work he loved. We hope you’re enjoying ...

A hymn to mercy and love, “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” springs to my lips when my heart is quiet. I teach it ...

The 2024 Mic Check Poetry Fest, billed as a two-day celebration of spoken word and its power to bear witness, create ...

Dr. Robert Kibler, Minot State University English professor, and Andy Heitkamp, MSU Military Resource Center director, have once again joined forces for the second annual Veterans Day Poem Contest.

This weekend showcases the endless possibilities in Iowa City from the Mic Check Poetry Fest to special film screenings ...

Then there was Ada Limón, the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States, whose 150-word poem is engraved on an interior panel that’s roughly the size of a three-ring binder. “At first you don ...