Still, I understand how intimidating it can be to try to navigate an ocean of poetry that you’ve only dipped your toes into, especially considering its breadth and diversity: There are more ...

These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

In fact, he wrote more than 300 poems and essays in the classical language. Only fragments remain of the work of Sappho, a poet born around 650 B.C.E. on the Greek island of Lesbos, but they were ...

The state finals champion receives a $1,000 cash award. They will also travel to Washington D.C. for the national finals from May 5-7th.

Before almost closing himself in his ranch in southern Chiapas, Jaime Sabines achieved what was known in much of the Spanish-speaking world about his work and the way in which he was involved in ...

“It’s time to turn up the heat a little bit more. My boys are getting bored, and that’s not good for their appetite or their temper.” The poets talk about “A Century of Poetry in The New ...

“I didn’t want to just read it. I wanted to absorb this story in a more lasting way.” Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the ...

Poems with strict rules, known as a rhyming structure, can make your poem more predictable and fun to listen to. Two poems with a strict rhyming structure are limericks and clerihews. Learn about ...