Charging between $200 and $250 per hour, The Haiku Guys are able to rake in serious money by writing poems at events, especially since they sometimes attend up to six a week.

Writing poems following my lymphoma diagnosis gave me hope and purpose as I endured chemo, helping me heal and share my ...

When Eduardo Martínez-Leyva first started writing poetry for his MFA thesis, he didn’t realize it would be years before he revisited them. The collection of works became “Cowboy Park,” a ...

For the latest "Morning Edition" community poem, Rachel Martin and poet Kwame Alexander ask listeners for poetry submissions. This round, the call-out is for poems in letter, or epistolary, form.

You read; you don't write. I listen to music; I don't make it for money. But poetry's different. Nobody becomes a poet for the money. You have a heart and a soul and a voice on the page.

My guest this weekend on Poetry from Daily Life is William Trowbridge, who lives in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. Bill says he came late into writing poetry. He was studying for his PhD comps when he ...

In Richmond County, the fourth annual Know Your History and Know Your Rights Poem competition took place at the county library.

Author Joseph Bruchac shares a poem about a bumblebee and how taking the time to listen to the natural world led him to it.

You won’t find him in English class these days, nor in any anthologies. Williamson wrote for money, not for art. In the early 1900s, Williamson built a profitable sideline writing poems for greeting ...

A Utah County poet is trying to battle inflation with his words. His wife will soon be out of work, and he's now offering people some personalized verse for $5 a piece.