The iconic New Orleans bar is home to what has been called the longest-running poetry reading series in North America. One of the founders' headstones reads, “He was a mess.” ...

Arts Illiana will celebrate National Poetry Month with an evening of virtual poetry readings by poet George Kalamaris on April 16 in the Deming lobby. George Kalamaris served as Indiana’s Poet ...

Human speech is rich with rhythm. As a person speaks, certain syllables are naturally emphasized, whereas others blend into the background. In this way, regular conversation becomes poetic. Language ...

That is a lovely, fundamentally hopeful notion, but a sigh of melancholy echoes through the poem. “Of Mere Being” is one of ...

Last month, we asked NPR readers what poetry means to them. We received nearly 500 responses, from lifelong poetry fans to those who have only recently come to enjoy the genre. From sparking the ...

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be ...

Over the river, and through the wood, To grandfather’s house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh Through the white and drifted snow. Over the river, and through the wood— Oh, how the ...

This week’s poem, by Edward J. Rielly, offers a brief and intimate glimpse into the passing of a beloved being. I love this ...

This week’s poem, by Suzanne Langlois, is a paean to the threshold of spring. I love this poem’s richly tangible tangle of ...

But growing up, the 26-year-old'sview of poetry was heavily influenced by those two men, "both of whom were writers who have experiences that I didn't identify with as a working-class Salvadoran girl ...