Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a valentine poem.

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Though I read everything from memoirs to romantasy, there is one genre in particular that haunted me for a long time: poetry. In my sophomore year of college, I took a creative writing class and was ...

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — ...

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

In his follow-up to the award-winning The Final Year, poet Matt Goodfellow continues his mission to reach and give a voice to ...

“The churning, burning world needs poets,” Wharton said. “Poets express the human experience in lyrical words. Metaphor in ...

FSU poetry professor James Kimbrell headlined The Jerome Stern Reading Series at The Bark, sharing work from his latest collection of poems.

Then I turn to the poem on the next page and the story disappears. So, as we write poems, it’s important to remember that we’re really telling these stories of a moment. The question we should ...