Brenda Cárdenas is Wisconsin’s newest poet laureate. She began her three-year term at the beginning of this year. As the state’s ambassador for poetry, the Milwaukee native hopes to inspire creativity ...

Throughout National Poetry Month, The Daily sat down with Slam Society members to hear what poetry means to them. Their poems touch on everything from gender to race to childhood memories, bringing ...

“I never got poetry,” someone says to me again. And I sigh. Because I never got it either — at least, not until I learned to stop worrying about “getting it.” In fact, “get” — with its connotation of ...

In 1968, Margaret Ackerman of the University of Arizona authored a paper for The English Journal in which she included a summary of what poetry meant to most of her students: “sentimentality, ...

For Liana Wallace, spoken word poetry means vulnerability. A Georgetown University sophomore and a 2019 Evanston Township High School alumna, Wallace said a club she joined in middle school introduced ...

Sivakami Velliangiri, Geetha Ravichandran and Shikhandin, on their joint poetry collection, Footnotes in G Sharp, and on making their voices ring from the margins to stain the centre of the page!

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...