The rare handwritten copy of "Sonnet 116" features several additional lines, which may have been an attempt to insert British ...

Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.

From an early age, K Love the Poet felt a deep responsibility to nurture and uplift those around her. As a child, she ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with John Himmelman about his new collection of illustrated poems for children, "The Boy Who Lived in ...

“Kanye West is not Picasso / I am Picasso / Kanye West is not Edison / I am Edison / I am Tesla / Jay-Z is not the Dylan of anything / I am the Dylan of anything / I am the Kanye West of Kanye West,” ...

Singer Max McNown celebrated the premiere of his new single, ‘Call Me If You Miss Me,’ exclusively with Us Weekly ...

From classics to modern masterpieces, these great poetry books—recommended by poets themselves—belong on your bookshelf The ...

Max McNown is shining a light on the special meaning behind his brand-new single, “Call Me If You Miss Me.” “It wasn't necessarily directly inspired by heartbreak recently,” McNown, 23, exclusively ...

As the late poet’s sister Josie McSkimming aptly puts it, Porter was that “unicorn” in Australian literature — a successful poet. On any random page of a Porter poetry collection or verse novel the ...

After someone very close to me passed away, I felt God’s presence intensely for the first week or so. He held me up and gave ...

Gene Kahane reflects on five years of posting poems on trees in Alameda, "I’m writing this to say farewell to the five trees ...

As people love to talk about themselves ... My students are motivated when they hear me recite poetry, my own and that of other writers. I do my best to keep them interested by reciting work ...