Fourth-grader Cade Maxwell stood confidently before a room filled with his peers from First Odessa Christian Academy and their parents and began to read a poem from his self-authored book, “The Buddy ...

In this week of the Presidential Inauguration, it must be said that poetry serves another function when deployed in public: it is classy, it adds tone and the aura of high-minded literary prestige.

“I have a dream.” You have heard the line. But what you may not know is that the poetry of Langston Hughes influenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s best-known speech, which he delivered during the 1963 ...

Laguna Beach makes art look easy, but city officials learned over the last year that one form of art is actually quite difficult: poetry. The official poet laureate program is wrapping up its ...

Hope at Hand provides therapeutic poetry lessons for at-risk youth populations in North Florida. Founded by veteran educator Steffani Hendricks Fletcher in 2009, Hope at Hand combines poetry and art ...

In his 1974 anthology Revolution of the World: A New Gathering of American Avant Garde Poetry 1914–1945, Jerome Rothenberg introduced American poet Bob Brown to those of us of a certain generation, ...

As National Poetry Month comes to a close, we’re closing up our poetry inbox. All month, we’ve invited people to send us their own original poems, responding to a prompt each week. We’ve heard from ...

While writing a letter to a friend from college, the late David Foster Wallace came up with the line “Every love story is a ghost story”, which later became the name of DT Max’s biography of Wallace.

Swimming Lessons, out now, captures "different emotions, different heartaches and different loves I've experienced at different times," Lili Reinhart tells PEOPLE Lili Reinhart can’t keep quiet. “If I ...