No one wants to be last in any competition. Right? Only about 20% of people are concerned about being the winner or loser.

A tradition started by President Kennedy continues to this day, showcasing American poetry to a global audience.

Writer Ken Slesarik turned to poetry, both reading it and writing it, after the death of his son. He explains how poetry has ...

Middle school writing prompts fuel imagination and help students explore creative ideas through writing. Discover unique prompts to unleash their creativity!

The Adirondack Center for Writing is inviting North Country residents to participate in its 10th annual installment of Poem ...

George Oppen’s “From a Photograph” turns a wintry snapshot into a moving meditation on parenthood and the passage of time.

Terri Auman had been writing Christian poetry for years, but until a couple of years ago she had never read her poems aloud ...

North Country poets of all ages and experience levels are invited to submit their work to be displayed in Saranac Lake, Plattsburgh, Malone and St. Lawrence County.

I began to write my own versions of this sort of poem, little bleak existential ditties, using the vocabulary available to me at, say, five years old: My sister and I were also writing books.

“I thought it was super cool.” Hineline has been writing poetry throughout her life, including as a child and even as recently as a decade ago when she took a poetry class in Pittsburgh.