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.

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.

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 ...

Eric Garner's last words, "I can't breathe," are the backdrop for "A Small Needful Fact," a poem by Indiana University professor and poet Ross Gay.

Castro's visual poems have been seen at the Central Library, on clothing worn by visitors to Bihl Haus Arts, and in front of his Cibolo home.Castro is the founder of Earth House and of the CAFE Poets.

It's National Poetry Month, and for the fifth edition of Poetic License, we decided to celebrate short poems from poets across Canada. In these illustrated videos, you'll hear from emerging talent ...

"Twenty Little Poems That Could Save America." There are many assumptions, questions and provocations in the title of an essay in Harper's Magazine by poet Tony Hoagland, who clearly has a thing ...

scatter my ashes in Little Bear Canyon. who wonders where I am. Tom Keene is a poet-activist and author of “Flowers for Love Makers, Peace Builders and God Seekers.” Keene's poem “Harvester ...

The poem by Sonia Sanchez, “This is Not a Small Voice,” was first published in 1995, and is now the first part of a yet-to-be-completed song cycle by composer Valerie Coleman, commissioned by ...

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 ...