The US poet laureate on nature, the art of America, and her new anthology. Ada Limón is currently serving a second term as the United States’ 24th poet laureate. She is the author of six poetry ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Charles Ghigna — Father Goose — who lives in Homewood, Alabama. Charles has been a writer for fifty years and loves to “celebrate life through the eyes ...

Jerome Rothenberg says that since he was a child, some form of poetry “was always in the air,” and he could create his own songs and rhymes in response to what he was hearing. As an adult, he’s spent ...

The St. Augustine PoetFest, a three-day poetry festival, will be held April 10-12. The festival will feature workshops, readings, and open mic nights at various locations in St. Augustine. The event ...

This April marks two decades since the Academy of American Poets, and readers and writers of poetry everywhere, celebrated the first ever National Poetry Month. And what better way to honor the ...

It’s almost a job requirement for poets: accept the fact of being far removed from mainstream artistic culture. We poets are happy—ecstatic, really—to cultivate a few hundred thoughtful readers, and ...

Benjamin Zephaniah, who has died of a brain tumour aged 65, was among Britain's most prominent poets. Referred to as the "people's laureate", he was once voted the country's third-favourite poet, ...

Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola is the "dreamer" of the first-ever Roxbury Poetry Festival. (Courtesy Button Poetry) The first-ever Roxbury Poetry Festival will take place Saturday, June 5. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I’m asked that question a lot. Where do you get your ideas? Where do poems come from? After my school assembly programs, I like to ...