In this week of the Presidential Inauguration, it must be said that poetry serves another function when deployed in public: it is classy, it adds tone and the aura of high-minded literary prestige.

HAGERSTOWN -- Crystal Brown's devotion to poetry took her into the war zone. Now she brings her poetry, stories and writing lessons to area children. It was a slightly overcast summer day, and kids ...

As a young conservatory student in 1993, I was talking with a classmate. He told me that his teacher, a prominent trumpet player in the New York Philharmonic, would begin each weekly lesson by having ...

Fourth-grader Cade Maxwell stood confidently before a room filled with his peers from First Odessa Christian Academy and their parents and began to read a poem from his self-authored book, “The Buddy ...

I remember the best poetry lesson I ever had as though it was yesterday; it was at Low Valley Junior School in Darfield, near Barnsley, on a freezing cold morning in 1965. The date is significant ...

Romanian-born Louisianan poetaster and longtime NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu is not necessarily popular among conservative Christians. Perhaps that’s because his radio essays skew so far to the ...

I recently taught a short six-class course for Homeschool Connections on “Poems Every Catholic Should Know.” The text for the course was my book of the same title, which is an anthology of Christian ...

With minimal staffs and tiny budgets, independent poetry presses exist on the margins of the publishing world. But that fringe existence allows them to take wild risks and create new models for ...

PESHAWAR: ANP provincial president Haider Khan Hoti has said poetry plays a “meaningful role” in bringing about change in a country, stated a press release issued on Sunday. The remarks were made a ...