If you enjoy poetry or simply love words, you can creatively channel that same energy for manifestation with an acrostic poem ...

The world is filled with magic just waiting to be discovered. Start exploring with these mesmerizing poems about nature.

That is a lovely, fundamentally hopeful notion, but a sigh of melancholy echoes through the poem. “Of Mere Being” is one of ...

Poet and performance artist John Giorno launched Dial-a-Poem in the 1960s to deliver random poems over the phone. Now, a group continues his work on a new medium — the internet. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1 ...

Chicano poet Michael Jasso doesn’t plan his typewriter poems. He doesn’t outline, revise, or workshop them in advance.

NPR asked for your poems inspired by memories of home. What we received was overwhelming: 1,400 submissions in just two days, with lines that draw on all five senses — in vivid detail and gauzy ...

Michael Fortune, a proud Wexford man, celebrates his home with an evocative, beautiful poem, a tribute to his home county.

One hundred years after it was banned for its depiction of hedonism, the rhythmic, jazz-soaked poetry of Joseph Moncure March continues to find new life.

Amina Hasan is an alumna of Century High School. This poem was inspired by her recent visit to College Park, Maryland.

Poetry can literally give you chills. A Free Press intern explains why — and how to start reading it without fear.

Despite the poet’s best attempts to destroy it, readers still turn to his poem about Germany’s invasion of Poland in times of crisis. Why? There are many acclaimed poems that address themselves to the ...

In the spirit of celebrating the arts in its myriad forms, here are four songs you may not have known were adapted from poems ...