In brilliant yet accessible poetry, Safia Elhillo tells the story of Samira, who has been falsely branded a bad girl in ...

Inside the Statue of Liberty is a plaque engraved with words from “The New Colossus,” an 1883 poem by Emma Lazarus: “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The ...

Pennington resident Patricia Smith has won the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry for Intentions of Thunder: New and ...

David Kirby teaches at Florida State University. His latest book is “The Winter Dance Party, Poems 1983-2023.” ...

Enid Osborn’s new poetry collection, Pedregosa St., is a special volume of poetry which spans 28 years of living in a hundred ...

What would an acorn write to an oak tree? Or a coat to her button? A child to his toes? A pebble to the river? Dear Acorn, (Love, Oak) is a new... Letter poems to friends — of all kinds — in 'Dear ...

Some people text, some e-mail, but there's almost nothing better than getting an actual letter in the mail, especially if it's a letter poem. "A letter poem is when you're addressing someone else," ...