Today is National Poetry Day: Poetry-A language of emotion, rhythm and imagination

Poetry is a unique form of literature, distinct from prose, in the way it uses words to capture emotions, ideas, and ...

What Was Best About the ‘Best American Poetry’?

Our columnist looks at what it all meant. By Elisa Gabbert I wonder if there has ever been more equivocation about the word ...

'What we need right now is tenderness,' former poet laureate Ada Limón says

Limón's work documents everything from kingfisher birds to the cosmos itself. "I'm embracing my strangeness," she says of her poetry. Her new collection is Startlement.

What is rain poetry? ‘Invisible’ poems revealed at the Capitol Complex

The “invisible” poems only show up when water is added to them. A water-activated spray makes the poems appear when wet.
Texas Monthly

I Went Into the Woods to Read Matthew McConaughey’s Poetry, and This Is What Happened

In our fraught modern world, poets are rarely celebrities. But celebrities sometimes get their poems published. Certain people (disgruntled scribblers) may scoff at this. What do Megan Fox, James ...
The Christian Science Monitor

‘What it is to be human’: Poet Ada Limón reflects on curiosity and connection

New and Selected Poems,” Ms. Limón explores how questioning can lead to a place of truth.

Watch Matthew McConaughey and Kelly Clarkson perform a rocking rendition of his ZZ Top-inspired poem

For her first of three talk show appearances, Taylor Swift wears a bedazzled LBD from David Koma and her sparkly engagement ...
Baltimore Fishbowl

What It Is To Be Alive in this World: Q&A With Poet and JHU Prof Dora Malech

The poem's in JHU professor and Hopkins Review editor Dora Malech’s "Trying x Trying" find joy through a playful use of ...
Hot Springs Sentinel-Record

Little Rock poet Tracy Humphrey featured at Wednesday Night Poetry

Little Rock poet and fiction writer Tracy Humphrey will be tonight's feature performer for Wednesday Night Poetry, at Kollective Coffee+Tea, 110 Central Ave.
The Advocate

Hardy as zinnias, persistent as the thing with feathers: Rediscovering poetry in divided times

What do zinnias, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Hayden have in common? More than you’d think — and it’s helping me make sense of ...
The Christian Science Monitor

‘There is an inner poet in all of us.’ Laureate Arthur Sze on poetry as discovery.

Arthur Sze, the new U.S. poet laureate, hopes you’ll take time to read a poem today – slowly. Within it, he says in an ...

Matthew McConaughey was ‘not in a good place.’ He says this helped.

Matthew McConaughey's back on screen driving though hell in "The Lost Bus," while on the page he presents his "Poems & Prayers." ...