Jerome Rothenberg says that since he was a child, some form of poetry “was always in the air,” and he could create his own songs and rhymes in response to what he was hearing. As an adult, he’s spent ...

The St. Augustine PoetFest, a three-day poetry festival, will be held April 10-12. The festival will feature workshops, readings, and open mic nights at various locations in St. Augustine. The event ...

Depending on where you are right now, it might be drizzly. It might be chilly. There might even be snow here and there. But fear not, no matter the weather, it is almost April. And you know what that ...

Where do poems come from? I’m asked that question a lot. Where do you get your ideas? Where do poems come from? After my school assembly programs, I like to allow time for students and teachers to ask ...

In April 2015, The Washington Post published an article that combined insult, injury, and statistics with a ruthless efficiency. Headlined “Poetry Is Going Extinct, Government Data Show,” the ...

It’s almost a job requirement for poets: accept the fact of being far removed from mainstream artistic culture. We poets are happy—ecstatic, really—to cultivate a few hundred thoughtful readers, and ...

They are the overlooked of the literary world, and so you never hear mentioned the names of William James Dixon or Cora Walton or McKinley Morganfield when people gather to talk about great Chicago ...

Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola is the "dreamer" of the first-ever Roxbury Poetry Festival. (Courtesy Button Poetry) The first-ever Roxbury Poetry Festival will take place Saturday, June 5. The ...

Galway Kinnell was born in 1927 in Rhode Island. Feeling, after college, "a certain scorn that there could be a course in writing poetry," as he put it, Kinnell did not go on to study poetry and ...

On the eve of poetry month, we look forward to our annual #NPRPoetry project. NPR's Michel Martin begins the series with the Poet Laureate of the United States Tracy K. Smith. Depending on where you ...