Author Joseph Bruchac shares a poem about a bumblebee and how taking the time to listen to the natural world led him to it.

A NYC public school teacher gave up her day job to pursue her dream by writing and selling poems on the streets of the Big ...

Intertwined within the Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the acknowledgement of her as the “Mystical Rose,” for she is the ...

You confront, as a teenager, this antithesis of American prosperity and upward mobility where it’s like, “Don’t make too much ...

Gwendolyn Brooks grew up in a South Side house full of books and was a poet from an early age, eventually becoming the first ...

Apr. 30—"I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree," the poet Joyce Kilmer wrote. But why choose? At Albuquerque's annual Poets Picnic at the Open Space Visitor Center, you can have ...

The May 4 Paramount Theatre premiere of a major new work, Angel Island Project, catapults the respected but low-key Oakland ...

Poems can evoke laughter, tears, and thoughtful reflection. Recent research has shown their therapeutic effects: how they can reduce stress, relieve grief, and increase well-being.

E.W. Scripps’ newspapers’ motto May 3rd , this coming Saturday, is World Press Freedom Day, a special day to celebrate the ...

Moses Moody spoke with NBC Sports Bay Area about his poetic journey on and off the court in his fourth Golden State Warriors ...

The role of Spokane poet laureate asks laureates to, putting it plainly, bring poetry to one and all. To do this, laureates ...

A man says he has been given "the gift of life" after being given the all-clear from blood cancer thanks to an odds-beating ...