April is National Poetry Month and a good time to consider beginning a poetry writing practice for yourself and/or your ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maya Angelou, an influential visual poet, and civil rights activist, remains a cornerstone in Black history. Her work inspires ...

Use rhythm, repetition, and rhyme, and rearrange the found words to create your own powerful poem. What if you could write a poem without using your own words? Jeff Kass shows you how to create a ...

A Windsor High School junior will take his demanding stage presence to a national audience, performing poetry that speaks to his identity as a person of color. “I am the Smoke King. I am Black,” ...

Author Marina Loughlin presents a deeply personal poetry collection exploring love, identity, and the search for ...

Amanda Gorman, the nation's first national youth poet laureate, made history again Wednesday as the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history. Gorman, 22, performed an original poem titled "The Hill We ...

Is it just me, or is Poetry Month everywhere this year? Poet Mary Ruefle had something to say about this: Every April, since the establishment of National Poetry Month, I receive a call from my local ...

Through the challenges of war and distance, a Ukrainian student channels her feelings into poetry written in English. Linda, a high school tutor, shares this powerful poem and the student’s own ...

Rachael Burton, 47, from Mansfield, is thrilled to announce the publication of her first book. The debut, titled ‘Powerful Poems from the Heart,’ features poetry that Rachael has written over the ...