Everybody wants a piece of the calendar. For the second year in a row, the poets of America have spent April staking a claim to the month as their own. In fact, long before March limped out, lamb-like ...

On Saturday, poets of every stripe will take to the streets for Philadelphia Poetry Day. Dozens of poets — and would-be poets — will position themselves on stages, on street corners, and in shopping ...

In the first chapter of “My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer,” a book Christian Wiman wrote in the wake of a bone marrow transplant to treat his incurable blood cancer, he introduces us ...

April is Poetry Month, and there’s an abundance of new poetry books for children. Here’s a closer look: Since the post of Children’s Poet Laureate was created several years ago, three people have held ...