February is National Haiku Writing Month. The website nahaiwrimo.com urges us to write one haiku a day for the month of February. "Why February? Because it’s the shortest month, for the world’s ...

Many Indian writers have benefitted from the famed Iowa Writing Program, but recent funding cuts threaten to close this ...

Participants at the Interactive Poetry Workshop, hosted by the Lambing Flat Young Branch of the Fellowship of Australian ...

She was originally meant to be a temporary guest, brought in as part of a Community Poetry Project where library patrons are encouraged to write and submit haiku poems about their pets.

The second annual Chicharra Poetry Slam Festival returns to Albuquerque for five days this week, drawing over 75 of the top poets and spoken word artists from 30 cities across the United States. Like ...

Poetry will take the centrestage on Friday, March 21, as the world celebrates World Poetry Day (WPD). Declared by the United Nations , ...

(Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images) My first encounter with poetry was a haiku by my father. He would say to me, “You can write them, too.” After his death, I finally ventured ...

Opinion: Learn to read before you start grade school. Before that, make sure your parents regularly read to you and continue ...

Beatriz Fernandez was the first person to submit a Zip Ode in 2015, about her neighborhood. This year marks the tenth ...