and her passion just sort of carried me on and I kept doing it. What did your parents make of your interest in poetry? They were immigrants … math and science people. Their opinion was “As long as you ...

Founded in 1996 by a pair of Black poets who felt isolated in predominantly white literary spaces, Cave Canem has become one ...

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

One is named Jessica Barlevi, an abused wife and mother of three children who says, “I used to write out lines of Dickinson’s ...

Skye Jackson’s debut poetry collection, “Libre,” leads off with a poem that, back in 2021, won her deserved acclaim.

What’s your favorite Langston Hughes poem? Maybe it’s one you grew up with. Maybe it’s one you stumbled across in a moment of ...

I’ve lived in New York City longer than I’ve lived anywhere else in my life, and I can tell you for a fact ... rest of my block to plant them with me. Every year, we enjoy them.

you’ll find a selection of amusing poetry: Some imagine fun fantasy scenarios, some are just well-constructed limericks that poke fun at nonsense and others are poems for kids that will make you ...

It has nothing to do with “now,” which, in a way, might make it all ... the most to me over the years. They’re the ones that let me escape from the here and now. But it’s not always easy to get people ...

Her marathon 2-hour-18-minute speech was shorter than the combined duration of the previous two Union Budget speeches by Nirmala Sitharaman In a speech laced with sharp attacks on former Delhi ...

let me capture the present situation in some light verse.” What followed was a scathing yet humorous critique: That poem, shared widely on social media, had drawn praise for its creativity and ...

"My responsibilities are to elevate poetry and literacy ... words to give you information, opinions, ideas and my journey through life, and somebody is paying me to do it, so art is possible." ...