“Music is like poetry is like Shakespeare is like me,” I wrote in my polka-dotted notebook while watching a performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5. I was on a field trip with my Humanities ...

In September, 15 of the deaf children took the stage at Beijing's Forbidden City Concert Hall. As each of their poems ...

Santiniketan to Smithsonian: A Tribute to Tagore William Radice Professor, University of London, UK William Radice has published nine books of his own poetry in addition to translations of Tagore. He ...

In our age of instant communication and restless scrolling, poetry may seem like a quiet survivor, an art form almost out of ...

Last week, I found myself browsing the poetry shelves of a public library, a good place to be in difficult and divided times. While there, I picked up and checked out three books. The first was a ...

(Click here to skip down to the results of Week 1129, our contest for poems using spelling bee words.) Not one but two football players, C.J. Wilson and Jason Pierre-Paul, Lost fingers playing, but ...

Hanif Abduraqqib. Sarah Kay. Elizabeth Acevedo. Clint Smith. Do any of these names sound familiar? How about Amanda Gorman? All of these writers are part of America’s thriving contemporary poetry ...