Last year, as the scorching summer set in, we offered our readers unexpected relief from the heat. Admittedly, it was more of an aesthetic, even darkly comic relief, rather than a physical one. It was ...

Hosted by a group of volunteers and poets, Boston Poetry Marathon is returning to an in-person format for the first time since 2019. The roughly 120 participants at this three-day event have 7 minutes ...

Philadelphia’s poet laureate position is both an honor and a civic duty. The selected poet is expected to perform certain tasks to promote arts in the city, but the Free Library of Philadelphia, which ...

Despite the cold weather in the Northeast, summer is just around the corner, and as the sunny days have finally begun to roll in, I've used the sunshine as an opportunity to read great poetry about ...

Ever since even before William Shakespeare's famous "shall I compare thee to a summer's day" everyone's (well, should be everyone's) favorite season has gone together with poetry like peanut butter ...

Before you fully hand yourself over to fall, know there are ways to hold on to that summer fun, so says our poetry reviewer Tess Taylor. She has brought us some poems from this year that convey summer ...

Philadelphians will witness the magic of a haiku when it rains this summer as unique water-activated poetry installations pop up across the city. MORE CULTURE Kids at Play indoor playground and ...

Nobody at the Favorite Poem Project’s Summer Poetry Institute is preaching or arguing about the importance of teaching poetry in school. Nobody has to. Teachers have come from 13 states to spend the ...

Free professional development program in Chicago invites educators to deepen and energize poetry instruction ...