William Shakespeare is the bestselling poet of all time. The word 'poetry' is from the Greek term poiesis, which means 'making'. The oldest written poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh originating from ...

John Koethe spent decades as a philosophy professor. The poems in his latest collection, “Cemeteries and Galaxies,” are full of reflection and digression and probing. By David Orr David Orr is the ...

Editor's Note: This review discusses suicide. How can poetry help us now, when practically every morning brings a fresh assault on knowledge, wisdom and safety? Amid the cruel political discourse ...

Can poetry emerge from hunger, loss, and absence and still offer hope? This haunting question lay at the heart of the session ...

From Los Angeles to Nevada, younger people are preserving a longstanding tradition one lyric at a time Deep in the heart of Los Angeles’s Koreatown, just a few doors down from H Mart and a K-pop music ...

This short video shows us three different American Sign Language poems – two of which are less than a minute long. They give us an idea of poetry that is entirely out of most mainstream experience, ...