The finals of the Poetry Out Loud high school poetry competition take place in Washington, D.C., this week. NPR asked some of this year's competitors about how to master a poem.

These poems are an ode to the feelings experienced on the fringes of what's socially accepted, but that doesn't make them any ...

San Lorenzo Valley High School junior Finn Maxwell, 16, and Dina Lusztig Noyes, 18, a senior at Pacific Collegiate School, ...

The dance class where I learned I’d been doing cha-cha wrong since junior high. The delicious pasta I had while dining with ...

SLC Arts is located at the Creative Spirit Community Arts Center, 6-8 Raymond Street in Potsdam. They regularly hold poetry, ...

Award-winning poet, wildland firefighter, and co-founder of Left Margin Lit, Rachel Richardson has a new book, “Smother.” ...

Songwriting and poetry go hand in hand, and these three famous songwriters managed to make their song lyrics sound like poems.

The young Black woman wanted her grandmother to see her in the sanctuary and “to run to her Hershey-­sweet brown arms” and receive a “coconut rabbit cake on a jelly-bean platter; every year under the ...

One of the most frustrating things about this is trying to explain my very boring plate of plain lettuce sans dressing that is quite often the only reliable item on a menu that I can order when ...

Gregg Pachkowski/Pensacola News/USA Today Network The measure also instructs each federal agency to update each document and map in accordance with the name change ... to make sure that we ...

Siva danced in the lifeless snow piled up on the ruins. His drum woke me up. I sit alone, desolate, my throat blue with the poison I drank. with their sharp wings. The lines on the map do not stop ...