HAIKU, Maui » When Pulitzer Prize-winning poet William S. Merwin began to plant palm trees at his estate on former pineapple land in East Maui during the mid-1970s, his goal was to restore a native ...

The third Poetry Echoes of Expression event, staged by poet Richie Innocent, is scheduled for September 26 at the Queens, New ...

Poems are made for the express purpose of re-figuring the world. They have no other reason for being. In them, metaphors are completely at home. In poems, metaphors subtly materialize or dynamically ...

The Moth Poetry Prize, run by the Moth magazine in rural Ireland, remains the largest prize in the world for a single unpublished poem (€10,000), with three generous prizes of €1,000 for each of the ...

Saumya Choudhury, Programme Director, Delhi Poetry Slam talks to us about why poetry as a literary genre is in dire need of encouragement and what are the challenges faced by poets in India.

The Creative Zone is a showcase of artwork, poetry, short stories and other creative work by elementary and middle school students. The seventh-grade students in Ellen McMillan’s art class at Parkway ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...