The Griffin Poetry Prize has reinstated the $65,000 Canadian Poetry Prize, they announced in a press statement Wednesday.

Governor Morrisey announced a new statewide America250 Poetry Contest, inviting West Virginians of all ages to submit ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) – In honor of America’s 250th birthday, state leaders are encouraging West Virginians to express ...

Poet Gary Whited and artist Maria Zervos will share translations of ancient Greek poets and a film at Truro Public Library.

The form known as ekphrasis — or poetry about art — has taken a turn toward the individual. Our columnist asks what it means.

Through the month of April, we asked you to send us your original poems. The response was astounding! We received over 100 ...

Poetry addresses many of our most commonly experienced human challenges and has the power to foster resilience, hope, and healing.

There was a time, not too long ago, when many people could only name one, maybe two, poets – often a long-dead White man named William Shakespeare, Robert Frost or Walt Whitman. Meanwhile, the Lincoln ...

TORONTO — The Griffin Poetry Prize is bringing back its Canada-specific award and keeping the hefty international prize in place in an effort to satisfy poets who felt disenfranchised when the two ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

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 ...

Culturally, poetry is used in varied ways. Haikus, for example, juxtapose images of the everyday, while lyric poetry expresses the personal and emotional. Similarly, poets themselves come in a range ...