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

Why Millennials Are Turning to Poetry Again.  The resurgence of poetry among millennials is a compelling indicator of a ...

A new adaptation of Max Porter’s novella brings the story of devastation and tentative renewal to the stage at Belvoir St ...

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

Marginality, mass death—these are just a few of the reasons why the oeuvre of Essex Hemphill, who died of the virus in 1995, ...

T hat peon to Ted Hughes’ CROW, Max Porter’s compact tone poem, Grief is the Thing With Feathers, has been adapted and thrillingly brought to theatrical life by the talented trio of actor Toby Schmitz ...

Max Porter lost his father when he was just six years old . He has described his first book, Grief is the Thing with Feathers ...

By encouraging people to imagine beyond their own experience, reading poetry can help them see things from a different ...

Salaam Green, Birmingham’s inaugural poet laureate, is one of 23 recipients of the Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship. The fellowship awards a total of $1.1 million to support ...

Belvoir St Theatre's adaptation of Grief is the Thing with Feathers has the potential to reach excellence, but ...

Most of us go about our lives thinking that death is a stranger we will only encounter once in our lives, that it will not suddenly sneak into our homes and steal away our loved ones. But, through the ...

With this book, my goal is to depict often little known actual historical events as accurately as possible, immersing the ...