Founded in 1996 by a pair of Black poets who felt isolated in predominantly white literary spaces, Cave Canem has become one of the most influential literary organizations in the U.S.

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

Two professors in the Creative Writing Program turned to the seventh-century style of verse during the pandemic to tackle the ...

Benry Juno James ‘25 was inspired to write “dear wormwood,” while doing their homework for an intermediate poetry class last fall. Last week, the poem won the H. MacKnight Black Poetry Prize, an award ...

A poetry jam event hosted by the library brought the SFSU community together to celebrate National Poetry Month.

Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a ...

The Editors are pleased to announce the twenty-fifth New Criterion Poetry Prize for a book-length manuscript of poems that ...

Snow-tipped chimneys, fresh pine, lively carols and gifts wrapped with care: For over a century, Christmas poems have captured the magic of the most wonderful time of the year. While many people ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...

World Poetry Day is observed annually on March 21 to pay tribute to poets. It also aims to promote the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry worldwide. Poetry is a form of art and culture.