poetry

Poems give language and voice to the things that are sometimes incommunicable. Edward Hirsch knows something about this.

Urban 15's yearly poetry festival has opened up to the world through its YouTube channel.

Joshua Bennett has received the Whiting Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

The Global Vaccine Poetry Project invites people to write a poem about their vaccination experiences.

A Ukrainian wrote a poem about the freedom of Jazz, then moved to the U.S. to experience it.

Amanda Gorman, who became a sensation after her poem at Joe Biden's inauguration, says a security guard told her she looked "suspicious."

In 1956, Ferlinghetti published the first edition of Allen Ginsberg's Howl. According to one critic, his greatest accomplishments were fighting censorship and starting a small-press revolution.

Poet Jackie Wang's collection is a surrealist expression of how social processes and traumas show up in our dreams and how we can better understand ourselves by tuning in to them.

Fresh from her burst into the literary stratosphere after her appearance at President Biden's inauguration, poet Amanda Gorman will recite a new poem during the Super Bowl LV pre-show next Sunday.

At 22 years old, the Los Angeles native will become the youngest poet in recent memory to deliver a poem at a presidential inauguration.