Poets.org: Welcome to the Guest Editor Q&A, hosted by the Academy of American Poets. I’m Mary Sutton, senior content editor at the Academy, and I’m here today with the Guest Editor for November, Laura ...

Langston Hughes poems guaranteed to move you Langston Hughes is one of the most prolific yet most underrated American poets ...

Let nature hypothesize man’s indifference to it. Let nature take a turn at saying what love is!

It’s not relaxation that I seek but clarity of what “is”–of what I am experiencing from quadruple doses of news. It blares ...

Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon epic poem about the defeat of Grendel – a creature whose exact form is still debated. Depending on ...

Hope you are all having a lovely fall. Please see below some poems that help embrace the season. “The Wild Swans at Coole” by ...

Musicians have long taken inspiration from poetry for their work; here are four rock songs that pull from well-known poems.

Charles Taylor’s big-hearted, misshapen book on philosophy, poetry, and our never-ending quest to heal the wound of modern ...

How a stay in Warsaw and a father’s funeral became the source of a poem the famous Russian poet wrote for his entire life, in ...

Ellery Akers’ latest book combines her poetry and art — a first in her creative career. The book, which celebrates California ...

Camille Saint-Saëns "Danse macabre" includes frantic violin calls and bone-chilling percussion. The deadly dance reminds ...

The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women. Forty years later, giving voice to invisible victims post the 1984 anti-Sikh riots ...