Walter Bargen, Missouri's first poet laureate, offers advice for people willing to embrace the world and be surprised.

The below extract is from The Face in the Well, the third collection from Suffolk-born poet Rebecca Watts. The poems in her new book hop between eras and memories, and display — like all of this ...

This week’s guest on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Matt Mason, who lives in Omaha, Nebraska. Matt, who was the Nebraska State Poet from 2019-2024, started writing in high school and not long after ...

Syria’s new leaders have been criticised after they announced plans to remove poetry about women and love from schools under ...

Entries are due March 9 for the contest that honors the late Henry Pestka, a Holocaust survivor who settled in Grand Rapids.

Boosted by his eighth-grade teacher’s words of encouragement that he had the potential to become a great writer, Alex Loper ...