Poetry has been an essential part of many countries’ popular culture for centuries. Italy, Russia, Iran, Chile, Poland, and Nicaragua are good examples, to name just a few. In these places, professors ...

LEE LEVOY I begin each day in stillness but on this spring morning a fawn startles me appearing incredibly close raising her ...

The love between friends deserves to be celebrated. These poems about friendship are sweet, relatable and heartfelt ways to say "I love you." ...

No summer trip to SC beaches is complete without watching pelicans gliding over the waves and diving out of the sky into the ...

Washington poet Eric Ode often finds ideas while out walking. Here he shares a poem inspired by the prickly (or not) holly ...

Marty Longstaff from The Lake Poets reflects on what it means to see his lyrics featured on the new SAFC away shirt. Video ...

Megan Grumbling is a poet and writer who lives in Portland. Deep Water: Maine Poems is produced in collaboration with the ...

Ron Chernow’s exceptional biography devours the life’s work of Mark Twain, the perfect American writer who lived an imperfect American life.

Nzadi Keita’s poems about a “first gen North-born” Black woman Keita has written a stunning collection about growing up in a working-class Black family in 1960s Philadelphia.

The porpoise is critically endangered. Ancient Chinese poems reveal the animal’s range has dropped about 65 percent over the past 1,400 years.

A.O. Scott: I’ve always been interested in poetry. In a previous life, I was doing a Ph.D. in English, and the dissertation that I never wrote was about mid-20 th -century American poetry. It ...

Emerging research finds that poetry can help us feel happier, healthier, and more connected to each other.