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  • One of the reasons writing poetry effectively reduces stress is its capacity to facilitate emotional release.

  • I’m a fan of narrative poems, poems that tell a story.

  • Mark Bauerlein on “Poetry as Enchantment and Other Essays” by Dana Gioia.

  • MMI Preparatory School sophomore Christina Chrin placed third at the regional Poetry Out Loud competition held at Luzerne County Community College on Dec.

  • Sometime in the 1970s, probably at an event in the San Francisco Bay Area, I heard Audre Lorde read a poem.

  • Under the esteemed patronage of Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, the city of Carthage in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, recently hosted the launch of .

  • The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has published several collections of poems.

  • The final National Book Critics Circle Awards genre longlist has arrived.

  • Can you spot the Easter eggs and figure out which song inspired each poem? Which song inspired this poem? Agodon follows Swift through the looking glass in this poem, a hymn of self-loathing that .

  • Poet Laureate Jason Magabo Perez envisioned Saturday’s Poetry Futures 2024 Coda at the UC San Diego Cross-Cultural Center as both a culmination of his two-year tenure and a new beginning.

  • Brad Walrond and Cheryl Clarke's groundbreaking new poetry collections offer profound insights into Black American experiences, culture and identity.

  • His personality in the classroom peers through in his writings.