The new documentary captures one of the last year's in spoken word poet Andrea Gibson's life, and their relationship with ...

Semester after semester, an exceedingly difficult challenge plays out between literature teachers and their students: How do you make kids care about what some dead poet wrote about a wet red ...

Donne’s poetry isn’t so easy to master. His near contemporary Ben Jonson and his later advocate William Hazlitt both seem to have formed the same view, namely that Donne was a brilliant man, a poetic ...

How many ways are there to say “I love you”? A plethora of different ways, as demonstrated by the entries in The Herald-Mail’s 2014 Love Poetry Contest. Nearly 80 poems were entered in the contest, by ...

For Tim Jones, writing poems is like a bridge between the various roles he inhabits in his life: artist, Episcopal Deacon and chief operating officer at the Hendersonville Rescue Mission. Jones, who ...

From the sonnets of William Shakespeare to the writings of Walt Whitman and the rejuvenating words of Amanda Gorman, poetry is indelibly writ into the fabric of not only popular culture, but the ...

Like satin, the syllables slip off of structured stanzas, stumbling then settling into the softened recesses of my heart. I swallow, and then this art, this poem, plummets, like stone, like a cherry ...

Elizabeth was first inspired to write poetry about nature by teacher Mr Wood at St Mary and St John’s RC Primary School in ...