Indiana author Rebecca Kai Dotlich writes about how a childhood spent collecting lyrics and words sparked her love of poetry.

Even if you never pick up a pen, observing your surroundings like a poet is a good habit to develop, author Lola Haskins ...

Reading Frost requires a kind of modesty and curiosity. Coming to this modesty has been a big part of my own experience with ...

Now that we have poems available for free on the internet, as well as seemingly countless poets to choose from, it can be challenging to find truly good poetry books. That’s why we’ve talked ...

Sonnet to My Mother by George Barker is the type of poem that rolls off the tongue, making it a good choice for a reading at ...

Author, poet, and philosopher David Whyte reflects on the power of words and explores why accepting and celebrating the human ...

I thought, oh, wow, this is actually a good Robert Frost poem. LIMBONG: All right. Well, can you read it for us? PARINI: Yeah. Here it goes. It's called "Nothing New." (Reading) One moment when ...

I still have a few of those poems. One (or a hundred) was about a boy, one about my little sister, one about death, and one was full of silly nonsense. None of these were good poems. And it didn ...