McCrae has been exploring the afterlife in his poetry for several years now, and here his reimagining of Dante’s Inferno is ...

Three new collections by mid-career poets lay claim to stories of identity, suffering and hope, to a kind of collective ...

Maya Angelou’s legacy goes beyond the body of work she shared with the world during her lifetime. Her legacy as one of the greatest writers of all time also embodies the ability she had to hold on to ...

In this week’s poem, Peter Beckford takes us down a well and into an “upside-down” world. I love this poem’s tangible details of leaves, stones, and antlers; its otherworldly sense of shifting ...

On Sunday, Nov. 16, members of Stillpoint Literary Magazine joined the Athens community for a night of poetry readings, ...

A poem a day keeps the mind at play. That's the beauty of picking up a poetry collection: There's no pressure to read the book cover-to-cover. Readers can take it slow, savoring the verse and emotion.

Jenn Carter (she/her) is nonbinary, shy, Queer, a lover of nature and books, a mom, a survivor, and an educator. She writes poems about all of these things and lives in Portland. Jenn’s poetry has ...

Is it just me, or is Poetry Month everywhere this year? Poet Mary Ruefle had something to say about this: Every April, since the establishment of National Poetry Month, I receive a call from my local ...

Poetry isn’t just for the romantics, the literary types or the melancholic. Poetry can be for everyone. American poet Lucille ...

Children and teenagers often turn to poetry. As with so many things, they own it without questions or self-consciousness through play. Many adults admit to not getting poetry. Given all that we face ...