When you fall in love, you sort of losing all rationality. So, you have to really think when it comes to writing poetry. Whether you're in a relationship or you're hoping to be in one with someone in ...

For the latest "Morning Edition" community poem, Rachel Martin and poet Kwame Alexander ask listeners for poetry submissions. This round, the call-out is for poems in letter, or epistolary, form.

Evanston Public Library hosted a Poetry Playspace event, inviting participants to learn about poetry and write together, in ...

Do you want to win The Telegraph’s 2025 Poetry Competition? Here are some tips for getting started Tristram Fane Saunders has been writing for The Telegraph since 2015, mostly covering literature, ...

I’m a nonfiction writer who has dabbled in fiction writing over the years. I hope to do more of both, but now I also feel called to write poetry. I enjoy the idea of packing big ideas into small ...

Source: https://pixabay.com/en/poetry-poetry-album-old-font-poem-720609/ For years, psychotherapists have suggested poetry as a way to navigate difficult times. This ...

At the heart of Mahogany Browne’s poem “Working Title” is a question: how does a poet begin to address the killing of Michael Brown? Browne, who began working as a full-time writer in 2006, began the ...

We present an extract from The Irish Writers Handbook 2025, edited by Ruth McKee, the essential guide to writing and getting published, with contributions from acclaimed authors and book industry ...

With #Poetry amassing more than 93m Instagram posts alone, is the spoken word resonating more than ever?

During a dry period of writing, Creative Writing Associate Professor Maggie Dietz felt the stirrings of a new poem. Lines from “If You Would Let Me” came to her in waking dreams, she says. Several ...