There was a time, not too long ago, when many people could only name one, maybe two, poets – often a long-dead White man named William Shakespeare, Robert Frost or Walt Whitman. Meanwhile, the Lincoln ...

Tracy K. Smith, former U.S. poet laureate, poses for a portrait at the Hatch Shell in Boston on Aug. 17, 2021. For nearly three decades, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith has used her craft ...

Despite popular belief, poetry isn’t exclusively the realm of stodgy white guys in tweed jackets waxing nostalgic about blades of grass and such. As one of the most visceral and versatile forms of ...

We humans have been creating poetry since practically the beginning of time… or, you know, since about right around then, anyway — first through song and chants, through images, and finally by ...