By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

I have met so many good people of Petersburg, and I love the great possibilities that the city has on the horizon' ...

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get in the way of meaning.

Thirteen-year-old writer Ariana Shaprow is displaying her poem “The Way It Should Be” at the Mosaic Children’s Museum in Woodland, California, celebrating the accomplishments of ...