If poetry has taught me anything it has done so by asking me to set myself aside and listen. When I do that listening today, I hear a call of mourning coming from the Gaza Strip.

The What’s the Word poetry slam series continues in Rahway tomorrow from 6 to 9 p.m. The free event provides a platform for poets to share their work in a “lively and supportive environment ...

The Pulitzer Center congratulates the 2025 Fighting Words Poetry Contest winners and finalists!This year's Fighting Words ...

Ben Bernthal’s set-up for street poetry, featuring his typewriter, an ironing board displaying mystery poems, and a flag with the word “poems” sewn onto it. Photo by Io Yeh Gilman. As they talk before ...

This week’s guest on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Matt Mason, who lives in Omaha, Nebraska. Matt, who was the Nebraska State Poet from 2019-2024, started writing in high school and not long after ...

Arts Focus discusses the 2023 Moving Words Poetry competition now accepting submissions until February 15. ... Published December 21, 2022 at 12:45PM Photo via ArlingtonArts.

These Words – a poem for Parsha Vaetchanan. Listen, family, these words meant for your ears are the most important words. By Rick Lupert Published August 15, 2024 [additional-authors] ...

Armstrong senior wins national spoken word champion for poem on Minnesota winter 02:22. GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. --A Golden Valley teenager is a national champion - because of the powerful way she ...

Spoken-word master Dillon Brown mesmerized with an ode to the body, and Paul Kretz of Astoria, Queens, a relative open mic newbie, celebrated eight months of sobriety with a poem that required the ...