WPSU is asking Pennsylvania students in kindergarten through 12th grade to submit their poems for the 2026 WPSU Poetry Writing Contest. Winning poets will be given the opportunity to read their work ...

When you fall in love, you sort of losing all rationality. So, you have to really think when it comes to writing poetry. Whether you're in a relationship or you're hoping to be in one with someone in ...

T.S. Eliot famously observed in his great poem, “The Four Quartets,” that April is the cruelest month. Economists quote this line every year during the first two weeks of that month when referencing ...

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If “a grain of poetry suffices to season a century," as the poet José Martí once wrote, then what would a bit of poetry do for the average student and the few years we spend in college? I write poetry ...

Poetry events kicked up after a slight respite for the holidays. I attended the Blue Whale Reading two weeks ago, featuring ...

The new book of poems by Ann Mirabile Lees, “We Are All Seatmates on the Spaceship Earth,” is an enchanting collection written since her first book appeared in 2012. This new book contains 62 poems in ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

The spoken word event featured poet Sarah Kay and performances from Stanford’s Spoken Word Collective, which disentangled ...