Mary Margaret Hughes, who got her start in classrooms and on stages in Springfield, writes about how creativity and inspiration can snowball.

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Kevin Young about his latest poetry collection: Stones. The collection is about memory and loss, his deep ties to the South and how he stays connected to the past.

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 ...

More than three decades after scribbling his first poem as a teenager in the mountains of northern China, ... I while away my middle age at 5,000 meters deep. ... And through this rebuild my life.

His most famous poem, “In the Middle of Life,” from An Open Poem (1956), is the best example. It begins: After the end of the world after my death I found myself in the middle of life creating ...

30 Poems About Life That Will Change How You See the World. ... If you’re looking for friendship poems by poet extraordinaires and deep thinkers, look no further than Elsa Gidlow.

Houston slam poets pen 'Rona Poem' Norah Rami, Madison Petaway, Calvin King and Joyane Eriom wrote the poem about life during the COVID-19 pandemic. To stream KHOU 11 on your phone, you need the ...

Bahr is Arabic for “sea” but means “meter” when applied to poetry. Zeina Hashem Beck weaves poems of deep longing that feel like whole worlds. This ghazal, a traditional Middle Eastern ...

Some of the new poems are among the best Howe has written, making them among the best period. Set "In the middle of my life — just past the middle," these poems grieve lost friends; reckon with ...

The versatile, restless, maddeningly guileful artist Rashid Johnson—whose career-spanning survey exhibition, “A Poem for Deep Thinkers,” is now up at the Guggenheim, inhabiting almost the ...

HONORING THE RAD: Shortly after Tropical Storm Helene descended on Asheville, local resident Alexander Steere penned a poem about the destruction it caused in the River Arts District. Photo ...