Book to brighten your day: The Prelude by William Wordsworth - An autobiographical poem by a romantic English poet

William Wordsworth, a key figure of the Romantic movement, believed nature profoundly shaped human character and imagination.
Antelope Valley Press

Local teen wins poetry contest

When Palmdale Academy Charter High School junior Yesenia Martinez moved to Lake Los Angeles last year from the San Fernando ...
NPR

Ada Limón reflects on her tenure as the poet laureate and bringing us back to wonder

When Ada Limón became the U.S. Poet Laureate in 2022, she took that moment she used that moment to reflect on poetry's power to connect — or to reconnect — people to the world around them and to their ...
The New York Times

The Best Poetry of 2025

Here are the year’s most notable collections of verse as chosen by our poetry columnist. Credit...Photo illustration by Sebastian Mast Supported by By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of ...
The New York Times

Can a Poem Be Too Short? It Depends on the Poem, and the Reader.

A new anthology highlights the charms and drawbacks of very brief verse. By Elisa Gabbert I remember where I was when I first read two short poems. One, Margaret Atwood’s “You Fit Into Me” (“you fit ...