Ada Limón served as the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. She’ll be in Eugene on Wednesday, April 8 for a talk at the ...

Joyce Kilmer wrote one of the most famous%2C most beloved%2C most parodied poems His ode to trees is known by almost everyone%2C critic said But rote memorization of poetry is on the way out in ...

This upcoming weekend continues a celebration of Gram Parsons as well as innovative program of Poetry workshops in the Joshua Tree National Park led by poet Jodie Hollander. Fifty years ago, Gram ...

Joe and Vicki Douglas are pictured next to their Poet Tree on April 13. After receiving inspiration from other public poetry posts, Joe Douglas created the box, which rests on the front of a maple ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Joyce Kilmer famously wrote, “I think that I shall never see/A poem lovely as a tree.” Well, south Minneapolis has a tree that Kilmer would go nuts for. It’s the Little Free Poet Tree, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - April is National Poetry Month. Cleveland Public Library is working with Ohio Center for the Book to ...

These words from Naomi Lazard’s translation of one of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s less-known masterpieces, Ek Din Yun Khizan Aa Gai, were among the first I stumbled upon during a simple Google search for “poems ...

“I would read him my poetry,” she says. “All the Latin American poets were his favorites. He loved poetry. He wanted me to read mine, but I couldn’t write fast enough, so I’d bring books of poetry ...