This week’s poem, by Janie Gendron, embodies the act of hope through notes written on paper, stones ascended, green pastures ...

Amid so many ominous events in the wider world, writing poetry is a small but significant way to sustain our spirits. For one last time, please share yours In his great inverted sonnet Work Without ...

The Poets for Science Gathering this fall at Kent State is something of a cross between an academic conference and a festival ...

After reading through the exuberant poems in Barbara Crooker’s ninth book, I began to look at the world with different eyes. I found small, seemingly ordinary things to praise and felt myself ...

How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, edited by James Crews, Storey Publishing, 208 pages. $14.95. Credit: Courtesy This January, Amanda Gorman’s reading at the presidential inauguration ...

Poetry addresses many of our most commonly experienced human challenges and has the power to foster resilience, hope, and healing.

Need a shot of a something powerful to launch you into 2017? Poet Carol Rumens introduces 10 irresistible poems about everything from collapsing beds to birds singing in storms Patience Agbabi makes ...