You could read Anne Waldman’s new poem in “The Lune” in just 11 minutes, zooming through her travelogue of Morocco, briefly tasting the camel burgers and ...

MONTEVIDEO, Minn. - Two Montevideo brothers have taken on a challenge as big as getting kids to eat their vegetables. Which is kind of how they describe their goal of introducing regular folks to ...

I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions and traumatic events that come with being alive. When I was 12 years old, I was responsible for the death of my ...

These days, it is not enough to be a poet. One must also be an ambassador, an interpreter, a carnival barker for a genre too often ignored. Three new paperbacks -- written by poets, naturally -- make ...

When you fall in love, you sort of losing all rationality. So, you have to really think when it comes to writing poetry. Whether you're in a relationship or you're hoping to be in one with someone in ...

One of my favorite digital features is the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, in which a new poem is delivered, daily, via Web or email. I don’t look at it all the time, but fairly often, and I am ...

Here are five short game poems, all playable in a web browser, that explore themes of love, intimacy, longing and separation.