Three years ago, a young spoken word poet named Sarah Kay dazzled the TED Conference, earning two standing ovations. Her performance about writing poetry to entertain and educate has since received ...

Ever wondered what sparks a poet’s creativity? Find out about the journeys of some of our Words That Burn poets. In these short videos, you’ll hear personal reflections, creative challenges, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Poetry is one of the most powerful art forms we have. Since ancient times, poems — from haikus to sonnets to limericks — have ...

"It's difficult to write a successful love poem," said local poet Aaron Anstett, Pikes Peak poet laureate from 2008 to 2010. "It's a complicated, sometimes messy feeling, and so finding language that ...

Too often, students receive the message in their English classes that poetry exists to be analyzed. They learn terms, strategies and complicated acronyms to remember them—all in the service of solving ...

Poems rhyme some of the time; oftentimes they don’t. But what distinguishes a poem from other herds of words is how a poem combines rhythm and precision to make meaning and move us: capturing a moment ...

As a follow-up to yesterday’s article featuring five poets discussing their 2021 releases, today Kelli Russell Agodon, author of Dialogues with Rising Tides (Copper Canyon Press), Tenille K. Campbell, ...

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