A Google search of “poetry Web sites” yields some 4,710,000 results. “Poetry blogs” turns up 7,950,000. Some of these links will, in turn, offer their assessment of the best (and worst) of these sites ...

It started with that pesky “reply all” option. It was April 26, 2012—Poem in Your Pocket Day, according to a news story on NPR, part of National Poetry Month. How wonderful, I thought, and then shared ...

When Sir Phillip Sydney wanted a readership for his seminal sonnet sequence Astrophel and Stella in the 1580s, he circulated it in manuscript form. By the time the 20th century rolled around, little ...

Who says that Masters of Fine Arts degree can't make you rich? Maria Bethania, a popular singer in Brazil, just landed a R$1.3 million deal ($783,000) to create an erudite blog dedicated to that fine, ...

Pos Moua, featured poet, and his new book. Pos Moua, along with professors emeriti Gary Snyder and Sandra McPherson, will appear at the John Natsoulas Gallery at 8 p.m. Retired UC Davis poetry ...

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There are many reasons why poems serve as good reading material for children, which is why we created a list of funny poems for children. Those reasons include the fact that poetry helps develop a ...

April is National Poetry Month—perhaps a good time to review the positive aspects of reading and writing poems. Poetry is a genre of writing in which succinct, vivid, and intense language is given to ...

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 ...

Artists and poets have long been inspired by the mathematical patterns found in nature—for instance, the remarkable fact that a sunflower's seeds follow the Fibonacci sequence. But there are myriad ...