Poetry isn't as scary as you think. These 14 collections of poems tackle everything from grief and race to family and love.

Why do we, as poets, focus so intently on one tragedy, while so many others—Sudan, Congo, Ukraine, Syria, the Uyghurs, the ...

Linda Ankrah-Dove, 83, published three poetry books in April, exploring life and her views on human perspectives. She started ...

A video reading of the poem, titled "Love Letter From the Afterlife" went viral after Gibson's passing was announced -- with ...

As Health Me, sponsored by Healthspan, wraps its powerful debut season, host Lisa Brady closes with a guest whose words have brought comfort and clarity to millions: Scottish poet and best-selling ...

In her third poetry collection, 2019 Pulitzer-finalist Jos Charles examines time and what it means to mourn — and how knowing that there is an "after" can teach us to embrace it.

Dozens of readers shared stories of how poetry helped them process grief. Trisha Fountain of Ann Arbor, Mich., lost her mother to cancer the week after she graduated from college.

Publishing "The Grief Committee Minutes" was a milestone for Carey, fulfilling her long-held dream of releasing a full-length poetry collection. Though she had published two chapbooks in 2016 and ...

Sometimes, he says, poems as an art form, connect us to the human experience, even if we, as readers, don't know the whole backstory. For this winter season, David chose to share a poem with a ...

Poet Victoria Chang stood on a stage behind a podium, setting up a timer before reading several poems from her new book “With My Back to the World,” which touches on issues such as feminism ...