My “wicked” scheme to scare the crow: alongside Scattered Corn, I, Turtle, prepare balled skins of deer, clad in a kirtle. Two gangly sticks for legs I pound across the hills of bean and squash.

Poet Roger Stevens reveals his techniques for writing a poem on a specific topic Sometimes poems arrive out of nowhere. You see or hear something that triggers a thought: crows line up on a piece of ...

The Wood County Committee on Aging would like to announce the winners for the 20th annual poetry contest. Submissions were ...

Dolores V. Mullings’ new collection of poems in this book are powerful, and show her range of addressing a multitude of ...

Hanif Abduraqqib. Sarah Kay. Elizabeth Acevedo. Clint Smith. Do any of these names sound familiar? How about Amanda Gorman? All of these writers are part of America’s thriving contemporary poetry ...

Culture: different aspects of a culture are explored in the various questions and responses – art, literature, music, language, religion, technology. 'It is not remembered.' This repeated phrase in ...

That’s a shame, of course, for apart from the purely sensory pleasures poetry affords us — the feel of words on the tongue, the pattern of sound and rhythm in our ears — it places us in an unusually ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...