These are kids who will never pay taxes. They’ll never hold a job. They’ll never play baseball. They’ll never write a poem.

Stephanie Pacheco, a student at Borough of Manhattan Community College, wrote “Dear CUNY” to celebrate the value New York’s ...

today i rode / past five police cars / & i can tell you about it.” In that poem’s first stanza, Smith introduces an unsettling image: “on the bad nights, i wake to my mother / shoveling dirt ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

Poetry in the Natural World" edited by 24th U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. I'm your guide, Katie Campbell. I asked y'all to try writing a poem of your own — you delivered.

Slater Nalley, a 17-year-old singer and songwriter from Nashville, wowed the ' American Idol ' judges with his original composition 'Traces of You'. However, they were stunned when they heard the ...

She was 20 years old when she fucking wrote that poem, and like, just that one line: “Still ringed with ordeals she was mastered by.” That is just incredible. Just to write that line when you ...

Although it is a poetry book written for children, ‘Where the Sidewalk Ends’ by Shel Silverstein offers insight for readers ...

On Waylon Jennings' 1984 album were three previously unreleased tracks, including one Dolly Parton wrote for him, "Waltz Me ...

Sometimes she sent groups, and I wrote more than one poem a day for about two years. Nearly 800 poems. Q: Did you think of putting out a book when you were doing it, or did that just happen later on?