NEW YORK — There was expectation in the room that someone would deliver a poem as lovely as a tree. Or not. The expectation was about choosing the worst of the worst — the worst bad poem of the year.

Maimuna Aden is a John Marshall High School graduate and current college student. She is Somali-American. The Post Bulletin publishes poetry by local and area writers every Tuesday. Send poems to life ...

Activist and poet Amanda Gorman, who was the country's first ever National Youth Poet Laureate, recited an original poem before Sunday's Super Bowl game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay ...

Critics and readers love the term, but it can be awfully slippery to pin down. That’s what makes it so fun to try. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most ...

Yeghishe Charents’ 129th anniversary falls on March 13. His poetry, prose, opinions and persona have accompanied us for more than a century. His lines pulsate and vibrate: obstinate, challenging, ...

Poet Amanda Gorman spoke out after her poem The Hill We Climb, which she recited at President Joe Biden's presidential inauguration, was removed from an elementary school in Miami-Dade County, Florida ...

TROY, N.Y. — The poem A Visit From Saint Nicholas also commonly known as 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, is not just a part of Christmas history, but also a part of the city of Troy’s history. “As ...

A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul. This week, let’s all learn one together! Meet your poem Rhythm and rhyme Made in N.Y.C. Greet the day Keep your poem By A.O. Scott and Aliza ...

In 2021, the second full year of the pandemic, I began to go outside more after a year of intense insideness. Like others, I started noticing what I had not known how to see previously: the arching of ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In his memoir, "Story of a Poem" (Unnamed Press), the celebrated writer Michael Zapruder (author of "Father's Day" and ...

The famous words "'Twas the night before Christmas" shaped the holiday by popularizing stockings, reindeer, and even Santa Claus. But the classic poem also sparked a centuries-long controversy. Now, ...

When was the last time you picked up a pen and composed a letter to a friend or a family member? NPR's poet in residence Kwame Alexander reminds us that letter writing delivers something more to the ...