What does it mean to belong to yourself? To be autonomous? To have sovereignty and power? When curating this poetry series ...

On Spotlight Poetry's fifth anniversary, three members reflect on the nonprofit group's creative community work.

April is National Poetry Month and a good time to consider beginning a poetry writing practice for yourself and/or your ...

Poetry is close to my heart. I would be lost without its very specific magic, its ability to spark wonder and shock and to open up fresh vistas on life in God. But as W. H. Auden famously says in his ...

Poetry can literally give you chills. A Free Press intern explains why — and how to start reading it without fear.

Others wrestle with more serious topics like a patient dying of cancer, or marvel at the magic of now-quotidien medical technologies like CT machines. At first, Campo says, he got about 20 or 30 poems ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman, who captured the world's attention when she read her poem "The Hill We Climb" at Joe Biden's presidential inauguration, will be published December 7. Gorman’s ...