“After each of my four miscarriages, I cataloged the responses I received from others when they heard my news. This poem offers my silent response, so impossible for me to articulate in everyday ...

NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate may not be obvious collaborators, but a Jupiter-bound mission helped them find common ground. NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate may not be obvious collaborators ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I wonder if I will miss the moss,” by Jane Mead, and his own poem “Mother.” ...

It was such a place of safety for me," she remembers thinking. It was a "core memory" and the first time the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States − the first Latina appointed to the role − ...

This year, Dallas named Mag Gabbert as the city’s second poet laureate. Gabbert will serve two years in the position and follows Dallas’ inaugural poet laureate, Joaquín Zihuatanejo.

And hid his face amid a crowd of stars. William Butler Yeats, widely considered one of the greatest poets of the English language, received the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature. His work was greatly ...

I Am Maria: My Poems and Reflections on Heartbreak, Healing, and Hope' will hit bookshelves on April 1, 2025 Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

The First World War inspired profound poetry, words in which the atmosphere and landscape of battle were evoked perhaps more vividly than ever before. The First World War poets – many of whom lost ...

Magical and moving in equal measure, Carol Ann Duffy's Christmas poems never fail to warm the soul. Their stories span both countries and centuries, from the tale of the miraculous truce between the ...