Let’s take a closer look at the most feared weapon used by the US in the Korean War.

View Kurtis Lamkin's performance from Fooling with Words.

Read the winning entry in New York City's Youth Poet Laureate contest.

A poem about survival from Kansas City-based poet and essayist Anne Boyer.

Tyehimba Jess has just won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry!

One of the strengths of poetry is that it’s a different kind of language…it can cut directly to meaning making and, yes to emotional truths.

The door itself makes no promises. It is only a door.

What I love about poetry is that it is both heartbreakingly intimate and public.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko's poetry was a kind of revolution; he was a rock star to the Soviet youth movement and a global celebrity.

A poet reading a list of endangered species wonders how differently we might view the threatened species if a few men "found themselves gestating, say, a lemur or a tiny panda."