Are you a real poet? "Once upon a time ... I used to wonder when or how I would know the answer to that question," writes ...

Traci Brimhall, Kansas Poet Laureate, explains how focusing on everyday experiences helped her find focus during the ...

Author Charles Waters was a late bloomer when it came to reading books, but poetry offers a way in that covers all sorts of ...

Here’s to the poetry of the game ... Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Like other forms of fun, their diligent workouts disguise themselves as play.

PORT TOWNSEND — Poetry on the Salish Sea will continue its second Summer Sunday Readings from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday. The ...

She wrote about how important the poems she knew by heart were to her daily sanity. She could not understand why her son cared so little for poetry. She knew he was typical of his generation and ...

Daily newspapers no longer review poetry. There is, in fact, little coverage of poetry or poets in the general press. From 1984 until this year the National Book Awards dropped poetry as a category.

I learned to work when growing up. My father taught his way. The farm demanded of your time and hard work every day.

“Everyone who went there was just so interesting, everyone was some kind of artist or musician or creative, and every vendor ...

Here’s to the poetry of the game: the way that baseball’s lyricism has us stretching, soaring, diving, sliding, yearning to touch again the base of home! And here’s to the grip, dribble ...