When teaching children to read, it’s good to find ways to make reading as enjoyable as possible, that’s why we created a list of 10 short inspirational poems for children. Just like every painting in ...

A new anthology highlights the charms and drawbacks of very brief verse. By Elisa Gabbert I remember where I was when I first read two short poems. One, Margaret Atwood’s “You Fit Into Me” (“you fit ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

Brad Leithauser likes to look for poetry in graveyards. A novelist and poet himself, there's something he values greatly in tombstone epitaphs: brevity. "You really don't want to go on at great length ...

MinnPost’s reporting is always free, but it isn’t free to produce. We rely on donations from our readers to fund our independent journalism. The Loft Literary Center will celebrate poets, poetry and ...

The Rotary Club of Summit County and the Summit Daily News announce the fifth annual Poetry Contest and the eighth annual Short Story Contest for high school students. The contests are open to all ...

My guest this week on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Amos Bridges, who lives in Springfield, Missouri. Amos is the editor-in-chief for the Springfield News-Leader who gave this column the green light two ...

“Will the near future necessitate warning labels in front of all published material?” asks Robert Atwan, in the foreword to The Best American Essays 2014. Atwan is worried about trigger warnings, ...

The idea of outsourcing the selection of poems to a fellow poet-publisher Dustin Pickering, lends the already published poems of Kiriti Sengupta another round of robust readership. From his debut ...

WESTFIELD--Woman's Club of Westfield invites all aspiring student poets and authors from first grade through high school to enter The New Jersey State Federation of Women's Clubs' Youth Poetry and ...