April is National Poetry Month. In the midst of a pandemic, this year’s celebrations have either been suspended, or the organizers have become more creative in their planning. Where most towns across ...

LIMA — Thirty-two years after Roundhead resident Jessica Weyer Bentley first put her thoughts down on a piece of paper, she’s reached a signature moment. She’s being published. Five of her poems are ...

In 1991, following the sudden death of his first wife, Susan, Mike Bernhardt began writing poetry as a way to deal with his grief. In the poem “Sunday,” he writes, “Together, we survived the ...

Dan Chelotti’s poem “Grieving in the Modern World,” was published in his first book of poetry, “x,” published by McSweeney’s. Read the text of the poem below. We caught up with poet Dan Chelotti at ...

Montana artist Heather Cahoon has never shown her paintings while reading her poetry at the same time before. But Saturday, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes member will gather her ...

Like many I spent yesterday morning reading everything I could about the 49 people who were killed at Pulse in Orlando, Florida. Reading about the grieving family members. Reading about the killer.

How great my grief, my joys how few, Since first it was my fate to know thee? With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by the Sun’s poetry editor, Joseph ...

Laurie Ann Guerrero is now San Antonio’s second poet laureate, after Carmen Tafolla’s spectacular two-year tour of duty organizing poetry events connected to the city’s history, and aptly reflected in ...

In 2016, Jos Charles began writing a long poem called "a Year," which is broken up into sections by month. "Months allow one to consider time in discrete chunks while at the same time being very silly ...