Indian poetry carries emotion, grace, and deep thought across centuries. Many parents look to poets for names that feel ...

CHICAGO — “When I grow up,” begins a poem by Mary Ann Hoberman, “I want to be/A grown-up who remembers me/And what it felt like to be small. …” Hoberman is that kind of grown-up. Now at age 78 and a ...

A prestigious poetry anthology is under fire for including a poem by a white author who published some of his work under a Chinese pen name in order to gain editors’ attention. The poem, called “The ...

The big story this fall in poetry is the sheer number of Pulitzer Prize winners releasing new books—five out of six being collections of new work. Meanwhile, two major poets break new ground in their ...

There’s a week left to submit your entry to The Telegraph’s 2026 Poetry Competition. Back by popular demand, this is the ...

Many Texans — myself included — were fortunate enough to become familiar with esteemed Palestinian-American poet, author and educator Naomi Shihab Nye quite early in life. Beginning in the 1970s, Nye ...

The Poetry Foundation announced Tuesday that “Revenge of the Lunch Ladies” author Kenn Nesbitt will be its next children’s poet laureate, a position the foundation created in 2006 to recognize that ...

Jacob Mayberry, a Baltimore spoken word artist, emcee, National Poetry Slam champion, Texas Grand Slam champion and teaching artist, Black Chakra, sat with the AFRO to celebrate poetry with us a bit ...

Roughly a year after controversy roiled the Poetry Foundation and led to resignations among its leadership, former city of Chicago cultural commissioner Michelle T. Boone has been named president.

CowboyPoetry.com officially named its fourteenth Lariat Laureate on March 3 – and “8 Seconds” – winners in a global competition on the internet’s cowboy poetry site. This popular folk form celebrates ...