Words need to "audition" for the chance to be in a sentence, poet Kate Coombs writes. In a poem, they need to be perfect for ...

In their new book, “Marshmallow Clouds: Two Poets at Play Among Figures of Speech,” Kooser and acclaimed fellow poet Connie Wanek offer 30 poems to inspire readers ages 10 and up to relish ...

Word after word, and line after line. Some poems rhymed and some didn’t. I don’t remember worrying about ideas, or how to get an idea, I just wrote what I was feeling, seeing, and thinking.

In THE CLOUD PATH (Milkweed, paperback, $16), Melissa Kwasny’s seventh collection, clouds are caught up with grief, which is both overwhelming and mundane, to use a Shepherd word.

Part memoir, part homage, part performance history, “Spoken Word” is divided into three parts that show the evolution of the performance poetry scene from the 1960s to the 2010s.

April is poetry month. The Kent District Library has The Diatribe, a spoken word poetry group, connecting with youth in classrooms across the county for workshops.

In “Spoken Word: A Cultural History,” Joshua Bennett traces the roots, rise and influence of a movement that continues to reverberate. By Tas Tobey When you purchase an independently reviewed ...