Poetry isn't as scary as you think. These 14 collections of poems tackle everything from grief and race to family and love.

Poets have a way of incorporating other poets into their work. Our columnist approves. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and ...

Poetry therapy uses poems, stories, song lyrics, imagery, and more to help people overcome a range of conditions including suicidal thoughts.

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of ...

A poem once described as a "torrent of four-letter filth" has been performed in the graveyard that inspired it, following the ...

Springfield school librarian Angela Knight's weekly poem readings inspired a new book. The book, "40 Poems for 40 Weeks," features a poem for each week of the school year. David Harrison, the school's ...

In this week’s poem, “Monday Night Choir Boi,” Jae Casella tells of singing in the “Lavender Choir” with several generations of queer, trans and nonbinary singers.