One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — the Mona Lisa is the story of a woman’s smile; the ceiling of the Sistine ...

On the south side of the river / inside a mossy grove / they say there lives a boy / with pockets full of gold… So begins a ...

Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a "Just Like (blank)" poem.

Children's poet Constance Levy, a former educator who lives in St. Louis, encourages readers of all ages to tell their own ...

In celebration of National Poetry Month, Write Action is sponsoring a special 2025 Poems Around Town event, and has issued a call for poetry submissions.

By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...

Watch the celebrated actress recite Maria Woodford’s ‘elegy for a nissan micra’ which came out on top in this year’s time-themed contest ...

Lyrics are often compared to poetry. Are they a form of "the poetic art?" Are they less "artistic?" Poetry has a romantic aura to it, whereas lyric writing seems rather plebeian (to borrow a word from ...

Anpotowin Jensen will launch "Hero Dreams Shine" this spring. The book is a collection of 45 poems focusing on themes of Indigneous rescilience and self-empowerment with science woven throughout.

I don’t hate this one but I feel like he could do better still. I like the rhyme and it feels like he put a bit of effort into it, I just feel like it’s not very personalised to me. I’d probably give ...

As a chance to hear Chang discuss her poetic process, Agu thought the event was an opportunity that couldn’t be passed up.