Dear Readers: Hope you are all having a lovely fall. Please see below some poems that help embrace the season.

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 scene. But you won’t find them in many text books, ...

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Poetry by contemporary Southern writers was the topic of USC Aiken’s latest “Aiken in the Alley” lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 6 ...

Sasha Pickering has made the 2024 CBC Poetry Prize longlist for A Tenuous Life Act, I Lay Dreaming.

Poetry is close to my heart. I would be lost without its very specific magic, its ability to spark wonder and shock and to open up fresh vistas on life in God. But as W. H. Auden famously says in his ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I wonder if I will miss the moss,” by Jane Mead, and his own poem “Mother.” The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss her translation ...

It was only much later that I realised they were my first attempts at poetry.” He would later write love poems of his own (most of which he never delivered). And move on from there to published ...

Walter Bargen and Barbara Leonhard, two poets known and well-loved in mid-Missouri, recently released dispatches into the ...

The character of Bigfoot first emerged in a surprising way. “The first Bigfoot poem I ever wrote was actually an anniversary ...

Joyce Kilmer, the famed poet, notably made this remark comparing poems and trees ... on’s and only realistically point out that the newness of those add-on’s can involve twists and turns.

Introduced by Rosa Alcalá, the Woodberry Poetry Room’s T.S. Eliot Memorial Reading spotlighted Cecilia Vicuña’s creative work.