Whatever emotion you're feeling can be found in poetry. So when life brings you down, turn to these inspirational poems to lift your spirits.

The love between friends deserves to be celebrated. These poems about friendship are sweet, relatable and heartfelt ways to say "I love you." ...

Georgia Popoff is a poet, editor and educator. She was named Onondaga County’s poet laureate in 2022. Last year, she received ...

My writing during these past five years is filled with memories of my long journey with God over a lifetime; but very ...

Washington poet Eric Ode often finds ideas while out walking. Here he shares a poem inspired by the prickly (or not) holly ...

PLUMTREE-BASED poet Kwanele Khumalo (28) last month released his debut poetry collection, Stolen Village Drum. With a unique ...

Ben wrote his final poem in October of 2024. He never posted it because he took a fall in the garage and broke his wrist, ...

Local artist and poet Stephanie Space will discuss her artistic journey and the evolution of her creative methods at the Dover Library.

Here's how to help the poemless: go to the poetry shelves in the children’s section of your local library. Grab a book by David Harrison, or Marilyn Singer, or Charles Waters, or Eric Ode, or one of ...

The Key to Everything,” by Margaret A. Brucia, is the first biography of May Swenson, a poet who fashioned her own unique ...

Shahid Alam and I go back a long way, though we had both half-forgotten it until recently. He was two years senior to me at ...

John Koethe spent decades as a philosophy professor. The poems in his latest collection, “Cemeteries and Galaxies,” are full of reflection and digression and probing.