of fear, Queen Anne’s Lace speaks, is light, and empty is full. Chengru He is the author of “M O月 N,” a book of poems, and " I Would Vanish into Its Stronger Existence," a hybrid memoir ...

Need to solve a challenging problem? Read or write some poetry! Compelling research demonstrates that poetry can accelerate ...

In honor of the city's bicentennial, Jacksonville poet laureate Andy Mitchell is writing a series of poems centered on the ...

This poem was finished shortly after the riot at the capital where violence was used to express their anger instead of being accepting and moving forward. Gorman’s poem is about making America better ...

Common poetry forms, such as the ballad, sonnet, haiku, limerick, ode, epic and acrostic, have specific rules. An acrostic is a poem where the first letter of each line spells out a word, vertically.

This year’s best collections offer a variety of pleasures — dreamlike landscapes full of symbols, images drawn from nature, linguistic playfulness, traditional forms and experiments in style ...

James Finnegan’s second collection of poems, The Weather-Beaten Scarecrow (Doire Press, 2022) was shortlisted in the Farmgate Café National Poetry Award in 2023. A third collection, On Leaving ...