The longlist is the sixth shared by the organization, in celebration of the NBCC’s 50th anniversary Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and ...

The tone was set early. It was afternoon at the Poetry Project’s New Year’s Day Marathon, the 50th since the event’s debut in 1974. After an hour and a half or so of poems, the day’s topic had come ...

The US poet laureate on nature, the art of America, and her new anthology. Ada Limón is currently serving a second term as the United States’ 24th poet laureate. She is the author of six poetry ...

I am sorry to say that April is National Poetry Month, as if poetry needs an awareness campaign. Like much in the United States today, poetry is sinking to the lowest common denominator, lacking sense ...

With spring well underway, the weather warming and the Earth coming back to life, is it any wonder that April is designated National Poetry Month in the United States? The literary celebration was ...

With National Poetry Month comes spring flowers and some of the year's biggest poetry publications. And as April wraps up, we wanted to bring you two of our favorites — retrospective collections from ...

The Seattle Public Library loves to promote books and reading. This column, submitted by the library, is a space to share reading and book trends from a librarian’s perspective. You can find these ...

A year-long project by the nation’s poet laureate focuses on the natural world and what’s at stake due to climate change. Ada Limon’s "You Are Here" exhibition will take her to National Parks around ...

Out of the 157,000 students that participated in Poetry Out Loud nationwide this school year, 55 are now advancing to the 2025 National Finals May 6-7 in Washington, DC, where one will win the ...

Lagos arts community, especially poets and literati, rose to the occasion recently when the duo of Salome Agbaroji, the 7th U.S. National Youth Poet Laureate, and Deborah Johnson, Nigeria’s ...