A Year of Reading

  From the NCTE Inbox Newsletter, a poetry event that is free and open to the public: Join NCTE and the Library of Congress for  A Conversat...

Photo credit: Karen Kuehn Hooray for our new Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo , a registered member of the Mvskoke Creek Nation! She is our fi...

Meet Amanda Gorman, the first National Youth Poet Laureate! "The unprecedented title, to be awarded annually, honors a teen poet w...

Flickr Creative Commons Photo by Found Animals Foundation CRICKET, ON KITCHEN FLOOR, ENTERS HISTORY by Robert Penn Warren History, ...

Flickr Creative Commons Photo from the Boston Public Library WE'RE BUILDING THE SHIP AS WE SAIL IT The first fear being drownin...

Joseph Auslander Joseph Auslander was the first US Poet Laureate. The position was then known as the "Poetry Chair" or the &...

FALL WIND by William Stafford Pods of summer crowd around the door; I take them in the autumn of my hands. Last night I heard the first ...

I had just about the best poetry day ever yesterday! It started at Cover to Cover bookstore with Tim Bowers and J.Patrick Lewis for the lau...

I have the best brother in the whole world. My Christmas/birthday gift this year was two inscribed books of poetry. Two inscribed books of p...