Joann Pagano Weber stands in front a shop window on Main Street in Saugerties displaying portaits of local people that she created for National Poetry Month. (Photo by Lauren Thomas) Hey, how’s your ...

Vladimir Mayakovsky was a great poet of the October Revolution. Yet at the start of World War I, the young futurist had ...

If you’ve ever talked about “the birds and the bees” or referenced “the best laid plans of mice and men,” then you’ve inadvertently quoted some of the English language’s most famous poets.

It was a worldwide revolution of technique and delight which robustly punctuated the equilibrium of evolution. In the blink of an eye the land bloomed with a spectrum of brilliant color where before ...

Founded in 1996 by a pair of Black poets who felt isolated in predominantly white literary spaces, Cave Canem has become one ...

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch," "The early bird catches the worm" — these and other proverbs are poems ...

Using their analytical skills when interacting with stanzas for the first time helps students uncover deeper meaning in ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

His poem is an idea of fears and emotions that still exist many centuries later. “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be” isn’t solely about Keats' mortality. It can also be about life not ...

We spoke for a generous half hour about her writing process, making a movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger, her most relished Sondheim role, her sometimes turbulent life, her new volume of poetry (out ...