The material inside — designed to enlist love and support for poets — reported a media blitz, including, among other things, an article on poetry in a Chinese newspaper, and “events,” such ...

April is Poetry Month, and there’s an abundance of new poetry books for children. Here’s a closer look: Since the post of Children’s Poet Laureate was created several years ago, three people ...

My mother’s views back then are now standard. In ancient times, poetry was part of ritual, not only to placate the gods but as to pass history along. Meter and rhyme made it easy to learn.

He brings this same eye for curation to Poetry Rising, a quarterly event he’s hosted for about six years. On Monday, Poetry Rising will have an event at 6 p.m. in the South Hill Library to ...

Poetry is rising in popularity in the UK as social media drives an unexpected renaissance in the often overlooked genre. Last year, sales of poetry books reached £14.4 million – their highest ...