One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — the Mona Lisa is the story of a woman’s smile; the ceiling of the Sistine ...

Poet Roger Stevens reveals his techniques for writing a poem on a specific topic Sometimes poems arrive out of nowhere. You see or hear something that triggers a thought: crows line up on a piece of ...

I’m a nonfiction writer who has dabbled in fiction writing over the years. I hope to do more of both, but now I also feel called to write poetry. I enjoy the idea of packing big ideas into small ...

Will Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album “The Tortured Poets Department” usher in a new era of poetry appreciation? Delaney Atkins, a part-time instructor at Austin Peay State University who teaches a ...

Water calligraphy, or ground writing in Chinese by an anonymous artist in Montreal, the largest city in Canada's Quebec province, has sparked local people's interest in ancient Chinese poetry. A ...