Kenn Nesbitt has been named the new Children’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation, for a two-year tenure. Nesbitt, who lives with his family in Spokane, Wash. – will serve as an advisor on ...

A poem crawls up the wall, twice my height, and begins with a dying fruit fly: “fruit fly / born in / hotel / room / died in / hotel room.” As I read, I’m caught in the decay and new life emerging ...

Presenting free poetry events, celebrations of forthcoming titles, and a new visual series. The Poetry Foundation's spring season debuts on March 12 with a reading featuring the newly appointed ...

Presenting free poetry events, writing workshops, a new exhibition, and more. On December 4, Chicago Poet Laureate avery r. young presents Chicago Soul Poem: A City That Writes Together. Throughout ...

Poet Kyle Dargan makes a habit of running a Google search of his name because, he says, "you never know what's out there." Last week, he got a stark reminder of that fact in the form of an ...