We use language constantly… texting, thinking, venting, overthinking. But most of the time, we’re using words to get through the day, not to check in with ourselves. You might be saying “I’m fine” out ...

Others wrestle with more serious topics like a patient dying of cancer, or marvel at the magic of now-quotidien medical technologies like CT machines. At first, Campo says, he got about 20 or 30 poems ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

Limón's work documents everything from kingfisher birds to the cosmos itself. "I'm embracing my strangeness," she says of her poetry. Her new collection is Startlement.

Poetry is close to my heart. I would be lost without its very specific magic, its ability to spark wonder and shock and to open up fresh vistas on life in God. But as W. H. Auden famously says in his ...

Two new books of Jewish poetry form a bridge to the aftermath of the 1903 Kishinev pogrom — and also speak to us today.

“In the particular is the universal,” said James Joyce. In Forest of Noise, the particular is the Israel-Hamas war and the suffering of the Gazans, as recorded by the award-winning poet Mosab Abu Toha ...

Porsha Olayiwola remembers the moment she was inspired her to write her first one-woman show. It was 2012 and she had just finished a poetry reading at a college. A man with a long, blonde and shaggy ...

Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman, who captured the world's attention when she read her poem "The Hill We Climb" at Joe Biden's presidential inauguration, will be published December 7. Gorman’s ...