When you fall in love, you sort of losing all rationality. So, you have to really think when it comes to writing poetry. Whether you're in a relationship or you're hoping to be in one with someone in ...

Tavia Wade is a mom to 5-year-old twin girls and a 17-month old Tavia Wade Tavia Wade anxiously anticipated the day she would drop off her 5-year-old twins for their first day of kindergarten.

Poetry offers something that news and visual imagery cannot in times of crisis: depth over immediacy and meaning over ...

In 1876 an American Civil War veteran named Eli Lilly founded a pharmaceutical company. He did pretty well for himself: you can thank Eli Lilly & Co. for, among other things, methadone, Cialis and ...

Long before a Trump administration official suggested the poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty welcomed only people from Europe, the words captured America’s promise to newcomers at a time when the ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story incorrectly listed the number of performers who could qualify for prizes of $1,000-$20,000, plus money for their schools, in the national Poetry Out Loud ...

A study in the journal Scientific Reports suggests readers like AI-generated poems more than those written by poets like Sylvia Plath and T.S. Eliot. Nonexpert readers of poems from William ...

Following a weekend of fear and violence in Charlottesville — where white supremacists and hate groups descended on the city and a car plowed through a crowd of counter-protesters, killing one and ...

Denver’s poet laureate, Chris Ransick, intends to live up to his title. Under Ransick’s reign, National Poetry Month will no longer lie limply on the local plane; instead, he’s shooting to see a ...