First they came for the communists / And I did not speak out / Because I was not a communist” the poem begins, listing off ...

In an interview with SheThePeople, Marilyn Hacker and Karthika Nair reflect on the role of poetry in times of crisis, the ...

From social media to AI, new technologies have changed the way that we produce and consume poetry. For World Poetry Day, we ...

Using our patented one to four shamrock rating system (four being the most obvious, but also still awesome), here are our St.

Model Hailey Bieber has taken to Instagram to criticise preachers who use cliches. “Pastors and preachers really love to just put words together with the same letter and act like it’s HITTING so crazy ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

MSNBC host Chris Hayes compared billionaire Elon Musk to the “horrible boss” character in the movie Office Space amid his efforts to rein in the size and spending of the federal government.

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.

He didn’t read book reviews—or so he claimed—and he didn’t write them, preferring instead to let his poems find their natural audience, which turned out to be a wide one. He mocked ...