Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a home poem.

I have met so many good people of Petersburg, and I love the great possibilities that the city has on the horizon' ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts may have a better right than any other state to call itself “the poetry state.” Celebrated poets from Emily Dickinson and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Elizabeth Bishop and ...

"We all engage in small and large acts of translation every day," she said of her work as a Haitian-born writer in "a city of immigrants" and "a nation of immigrants." ...

On the south side of the river / inside a mossy grove / they say there lives a boy / with pockets full of gold… So begins a ...

A new National Poetry Centre, spearheaded by Professor of Poetry and Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, is to receive a ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

The government has pledged £5m in support of the National Poetry Centre’s new home in Leeds.

Do you have an elementary schooler who has a way with words? This poetry contest might be right up their alley. The Pikes ...

Poet laureate Simon Armitage has welcomed the news that the government is investing £5m into the development of the National ...