When grief seems impossible to express, let the literary greats lend a helping hand and provide some much-needed comfort with ...

Art can help us make sense of the world, and these moving poems about life offer a better understanding of the ups and downs ...

Educators are conscious of the value of exposing students to great works of poetry, but the teaching of poetry often lacks a ...

There’s a deeply affecting episode of Dr Who set in late 19th-century rural France that sees the good doctor take Vincent van ...

With no one she felt she could turn to and share her deepest anxieties and emotions, a 14-year-old Houston girl named Inonda ...

New books from two Columbia partner-poets — one released posthumously — form a portrait of love, loss, life and death.

Oregon's new Poet Laureate, Ellen Waterston, recently spoke to JPR's Vanessa Finney about the state's literary landscape.

Award-winning author Morgan Christie discusses the process of drawing inspiration from poetry to write a picture book.

In life we migrate. You leave one relationship for another,” says prize-winning poet Ajibola Tolase. His debut collection, ...

There are things we know and cannot say, that cannot be organized into component words, which might be parsed and sorted and ...

National Book Foundation announced the 10 contenders for the longlist for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry. The final five finalists will be announced on Oct. 1, and the winners will be ...