HAIKU, Maui » When Pulitzer Prize-winning poet William S. Merwin began to plant palm trees at his estate on former pineapple land in East Maui during the mid-1970s, his goal was to restore a native ...

Poems are made for the express purpose of re-figuring the world. They have no other reason for being. In them, metaphors are completely at home. In poems, metaphors subtly materialize or dynamically ...

The Moth Poetry Prize, run by the Moth magazine in rural Ireland, remains the largest prize in the world for a single unpublished poem (€10,000), with three generous prizes of €1,000 for each of the ...

Vicki Grace Boguszewski (the Poet, Jah Love) is the lead poet at the Key West Poetry Guild. Below is her take on poems that ...

Saumya Choudhury, Programme Director, Delhi Poetry Slam talks to us about why poetry as a literary genre is in dire need of encouragement and what are the challenges faced by poets in India.

The Creative Zone is a showcase of artwork, poetry, short stories and other creative work by elementary and middle school students. The seventh-grade students in Ellen McMillan’s art class at Parkway ...

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 ...