In observance of National Poetry Month, the area’s verse-meisters will gather this week at the Greenbrier Library for the People’s Poetry Festival 2014. The four-day celebration of meter, rhyme and ...

Poetry is a unique form of literature, distinct from prose, in the way it uses words to capture emotions, ideas, and ...

Poetry and song were originally the same art. In the ancient world, all poetry was sung or chanted. Indeed, it was often ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Images: AFP/Getty Images/Reuters/Zuma Press Composite: Mark Kelly When my sister was in the sixth ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Kate Coombs, who lives in Bountiful, Utah. Kate began writing when she was seven or eight years old and was first published in 2006. She confides that ...

Nothing prevents us reading poetry year-round with children, but still it’s nice to have the spur of an official “poetry month.” In this regard, April constitutes an annual excuse to pull out old ...

It is often said that every Bengali has penned poetry in his youth. This statement was confirmed by the huge gathering at a poetry-reading session at the Nandan complex on Thursday evening. it is ...

On Saturday, poets of every stripe will take to the streets for Philadelphia Poetry Day. Dozens of poets — and would-be poets — will position themselves on stages, on street corners, and in shopping ...