Here are 126 poetry prompts for writers. If you want more detail about each prompt, click the link. Poetic forms are fun ...

Art can help us make sense of the world, and these moving poems about life offer a better understanding of the ups and downs ...

Local high school poets and storytellers are invited to participate in a creative writing contest sponsored by Westminster ...

Four grade schoolers from Oak Park were among winners of the 2024 Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Awards, a statewide contest.

Marcus Cafagña, a professor emeritus at Missouri State University, recounts the poem that emerged from his son's childhood ...

Reading the Poem: Silently read the poem “ The Lonely Street ” by William Carlos Williams. What do you notice about the poem?

A new work by Pat Boran ...

I Hate Parties is a collection of 50 poems on Jes Battis' experiences of being queer, autistic and nonbinary. Focusing on the ...

My Little Book of Poems is available for purchase online at Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com.

This blog post focuses on my approach to using poetry as an analytical tool in a recent empirical study. There is an exciting body of research highlighting the potential for incorporating ...

The St. Joseph High School junior class recently penned a collective poem. Inspired by George Ella Lyon's "Where I'm From" poem, 34 juniors wrote their own poems that were combined to form one larger ...

High school students are invited to submit their work to a Decatur-wide poetry contest sponsored by Decatur Area Poets.