Poetry is often referred to as an art, and it is one, but it’s also a practical tool. It can jostle your brain into new thoughts, change your mood with only a few words, keep you company like an old ...
The reader of poetry is always on the lookout for good anthologies. Our tastes, often enough, have been formed by such classics as Palgrave’s Golden Treasury or Louis Untermeyer’s Modern American ...
When Olivia Vella’s seventh grade teacher asked every student to write a monologue on a topic about which they were passionate, Vella immediately knew what she wanted to say. She wanted to tell girls ...
Boston's about to bust a rhyme.Dozens of prominent poets, including a former U.S. poet laureate, will commandeer the courtyard of the Boston Public Library on Thursday to read aloud from the city's ...
If one more Instagram poet tells me how to feel or what to think, I am going to lose my mind. I was bursting to scream this as I read through Nikita Gill’s book of poems, wild embers, which has a ...