Evan Wang, a senior at Upper Merion High School, wants to see young people engage with poetry off the page and in everyday ...

I would like to take a moment to acknowledge that we are on the traditional territory of the Áakʼw Ḵwáan, the original ...

Some poems are long and densely packed with meaning, but others are like snapshots written to save an image, idea or scene, ...

The feeling is most commonly framed as an end point, a level of despondency that cannot be overcome. But it doesn’t have to ...

Aileen Cassinetto’s “Catalog of Cures in Ordinary Time” establishes that necessary urgency in the first line and maintains it ...

April showers bring May flowers... and May diplomas! In honor of those graduating from high school/college/obedience school ...

A woman was left in tears by the message that she found inside a book of love poems while out browsing in a charity shop. She ...

Hope, because I believed that by wanting help ... poetry continues to be an important part of her life. “Poetry saved me in second and third grades,” she said. “I still read poems and ...

Franklin Abbott’s newest book, “My Ordinary Life,” is more than a collection of story poems. It’s a quiet reckoning with ... the bewildering ebb and flow of hope and fear, and the intimate, often ...

Her poems are born from life’s rawest corners—heartache, grief, faith, hope, healing, and love. These themes run through each of her books, yet no two feel alike. They speak in different tones ...

And if, in the words of the poet Emily Dickinson, hope is a thing with feathers, then poetry, at its best ... contribution of workers in all walks of life, paid or unpaid, and to give thanks ...