As these moving short poems prove, you can work poetry into your daily life. ... a huge upsurge in art and literature in the Black American community in the early 20th century.

Beside our fireplace mantle at the lake we have a small framed copy of this poem. I have loved it for its sounds, more than ...

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 that pretty much anyone can appreciate; a lot of poets write ...

Many of us probably have memories of writing short, clever haikus in school, trying to craft the best verse possible within the confines of the five syllable, seven syllable, five syllable structure.

Arts and Entertainment Style Invitational Week 1506: Let’s go magnet fishing with new words. Write a short poem with one of these terms recently added to the dictionary.

And small as in “Little Poem”: “The little story is so little that it just keeps piling up like dust on the postwoman’s desk.” In Kim’s metapoetics, the apparent futility of poetry is ...

Kevin Young first wrote his story about Emile, a boy in love with a field, as a bedtime poem for his son years ago. Now, it lives on as a picture book with watercolor illustrations by Chioma Ebinama.

In quiet corners where shadows fall, I listen to whispers, both big and small, The stories of pain, the songs of delight, In the hush of the night, I hold them tight. Each voice is a thread in the ...

He describes a poem by George Oppen, “Stranger’s Child,” as “a prosthetic consciousness—which is something poems can be, they can create new spaces in our interiors sometimes.” ...