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 ...

Works such as her 1978 poem, “And Still I Rise,” explored the effects of racism and sexism on personal identity, with a voice that… Maya Angelou, one of the most respected cultural figures ...

Retired Rochester educator Anton Stephan explores the concepts of fate and free will for a famous name from Greek tragedy.

Reading the Poem: Silently read the poem “ Let America Be America Again ” by Langston Hughes. What do you notice about the ...

Rise Up Theatre Festival is a six-day workshop for local theatre artists to create work based on Maya Angelou's inspirational ...

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

From love poems for her and love poems for him to words exploring issues of unity and injustice, gender and race, the best poem books explore all aspects of life.

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

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

She suggested I write a poem. Poetry, she said, would allow me to explore the painful subjects I'd been avoiding and ask ...

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

They still do flourish: that poem became a sensation and the poppy became a symbol of remembrance. From the end of October, poppies—sold by the Royal British Legion ( rbl) to raise money for veterans ...