Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images If the hustle and bustle of the season is draining your holiday spirit, a few funny Christmas poems might be just ...

As the author of books in verse for kids and teens, I often visit schools and talk about poetry. When I ask who their favorite poets are, “Shel Silverstein” is a regular answer. I’ve identified his ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Alan Katz, who lives in Milford, Connecticut. Alan says, “I’ve been writing since Miss Gordon showed me the alphabet in kindergarten. But I’ve been a ...

Megan Fernandes is a writer and assistant professor at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses on poetry and environmental writing. She shares her Brief But Spectacular take on ...

New poems explore the humor, contradictions, and mathematics of life, as award-winning film Versified! The Human ...

I remember finding a signed copy of the poetry collection “Time Is a Mother” by Ocean Vuong at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, N.Y. Usually, signed books are a sign that the author has a special ...

If you're writing nature poetry today, you are engaging in crisis. … What's the mood of hope, and what's the emotional palette? Those are big questions, [and] I think humor helps me express doubt of ...

Megan Fernandes is a writer and assistant professor at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses on poetry and environmental writing. She shares her Brief But Spectacular take on ...