Do you plan on participating in the largest literary celebration in the world? That’s right, National Poetry Month is a pretty big deal. The month of April was chosen to highlight and honor great ...

When teaching children to read, it’s good to find ways to make reading as enjoyable as possible, that’s why we created a list of 10 short inspirational poems for children. Just like every painting in ...

Poetry is more than words. It is the means by which humanity digests its most intangible feelings — fears that fester, hopes that inflate and make a mind fit to burst. It creates addictive food for ...

Correction: An earlier version of this column referred to the wrong day of the week for David Harrison's Sept. 30 event at The Library Center. Hi everyone. I’m David L. Harrison, host of "Poetry from ...

Poet Lynnell Edwards, artist Brook White both attended Centre College, where renowned glass artist Stephen Rolfe Powell teaches. "Kings of the Rock and Roll Hot Shop" one of several local ...

In Ishion Hutchinson’s breathtaking poetry collection “House of Lords and Commons,” music stirs and rises again and again in a stunning meditation on the landscapes of memory and colonial history, ...

Editor's note:This story contains poems with curse words. To celebrate National Poetry Month — which wraps up today — All Things Considered spoke with three poets, Hanif Abdurraqib, Yanyi, and Franny ...

Rigoberto González, a Mexican-American poet, was born in Bakersfield, Calif., in 1970. At the age of two, his family returned to Mexico, where he remained until 1980. His latest collection of poetry, ...

For first-time film composer Mark Bradshaw, the job of scoring Jane Campion’s ethereal period pic “Bright Star” began with words rather than notes on a page. “I always wanted the music to come from ...