Matthew McConaughey is going on tour to promote his new poetry book, and he's bringing musicians such as John Mayer and Zach ...

Other poetry magazines exist solely online, publishing not only poems but poetry reviews, artwork, film, and audio and video clips of showcased writers as well. Still other online journals feature ...

It’s 3 a.m. and the emails are coming in fast and furious. My iPhone is pinging like a Vegas slot machine that’s come up all cherries. What’s the emergency? I had just joined a discussion thread for a ...

At some point in our lives, most of us seem to have decided that poetry is too precious for us. That it requires sitting quietly, alone in a silent room, to really appreciate or understand. That if we ...

Last summer, bleary, disheartened, and often angry from more than two years of seemingly nonstop doomscrolling, I decided it was time for a big change. I needed to switch the channel, stop watching ...

Poetry leaves space on the page. As soon as we see that space, we recognize the words as poetry. We notice the broken lines ...

Safia Elhillo was a freshman in high school when she started keeping a diary to record her heartbreaks. All of her entries were poems, so if her parent ever found them, she could hide behind the ...

As poets and readers gather in Amherst and across the globe, the Tell It Slant Poetry Festival reaffirms Dickinson’s enduring ...

Open mics, workshops and other gatherings have gone digital because of the coronavirus. Here are some of the goings-on, and archives to check out. By Devi Lockwood April is National Poetry Month. Even ...

As it turns out, the pandemic was no match for the Wednesday Night Poetry reading. And poet, author and teacher Kai Coggin says she loves "being part of the story that has kept the legacy" of this ...

Poetry plays a special role in Palestinian culture. Among other Arabic speakers and Farsi-speaking Iranians as well, poetry is a passion. The 13th-century Kurdish Sufi mystic Rumi is the best-selling ...