You can read Minneapolis poet Danez Smith’s work in two new books or, if you happen to be in New York, on subway walls.

Babb’s observations of rural poverty, particularly during the Depression and the Dust Bowl, would filter through the ...

Carroll was only 17 years old when she left her native Co Mayo, an experience she detailed in this unnamed poem she wrote in the 1980s. “She was an amazing woman and had a great life until she ...

In her third column installment, Burtner draws on Sylvia Plath’s ‘sad girl poetry’ to understand the political madness of ...

Any anthology is a product of its editor’s decisions. In “ 100 Great Catholic Poems ” (Word on Fire, $34.95), editor Sally ...

Thanksgiving poems full of gratitude Thanksgiving often inspires us to get a little poetic. Thinking and speaking about the ...

In 2006, The Poetry Center launched its first annual Poetry Prize for High School Girls in Massachusetts (open to sophomores and juniors); since then, our contest has expanded into the other New ...

MARYLAND – 13-year-old Arianna Shaprow, who is a poet and activist from Las Vegas, wrote a poem celebrating some of the most notable female figures in history including Anne Frank, Mother Teresa, and ...

This week's Jefferson Award winner is a Berkeley woman who has promoted child literacy for four decades, as host of a ...

Yuka Kanzaki decided to translate poems composed by a woman with cerebral palsy to send a message that disabilities never slow down people like them. “People tend to think that they cannot do ...

MARTINEZ — A Hayward man was arrested by New York police just minutes after being sentenced to 364 days in jail for taking and burning a woman’s ... Husary read a poem aloud in court the ...

Bulimia is an eating disorder and mental health condition where people binge on food and then make themselves vomit, take ...