The world of poetry is wide—you can dig in to a longer poetry book or read short poems when time allows. And it’s an art form ...

In the town of Bishop's Castle, England, a peculiar shop called the Poetry Pharmacy is taking walk-ins and giving consultations - but in lieu of prescribing medication, the "pharmacists" offer ...

Bristling centipede, Blue-bubbled man-o’-war, Spitting spittlebug. Hail to the. hair-raising, hideous, weird, and wild. If you want to write poetry, grab a notebook, go for a walk, slow down ...

Yashvi Javia and Helen Cox talk with Isavel Mendoza, the winner of the Poetry Out Loud national competition, to talk about ...

Michelle Latvala’s debut collection “Beyond Latitudes” captures both the complicated grief and the quiet joy that lace every ...

The Pulitzer Center congratulates the 2025 Fighting Words Poetry Contest winners and finalists!This year's Fighting Words ...

This week’s guest on “Poetry from Daily Life” is Joseph Bruchac, who lives in Greenfield Center, New York. Joe has been writing since his 2nd grade teacher, Mrs. Monthony, praised one of his ...

And if you want to be inspired more by the beauty of the world, read wonderful nature poems, too. READER'S DIGEST, GETTY IMAGES. 12. “The Cat Metamorphosed Into a Woman” by Jean de la Fontaine.

A year-long project by the nation’s poet laureate focuses on the natural world and what’s at stake due to climate change. Ada Limon’s "You Are Here" exhibition will take her to National ...

The First World War was “one of the seminal moments of the twentieth century in which literate soldiers, plunged into inhuman conditions, reacted to their surroundings in poems”, writes ...