In this week’s poem, Peter Beckford takes us down a well and into an “upside-down” world. I love this poem’s tangible details of leaves, stones, and antlers; its otherworldly sense of shifting ...

Over the river, and through the wood, To grandfather’s house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh Through the white and drifted snow. Over the river, and through the wood— Oh, how the ...

Jenn Carter (she/her) is nonbinary, shy, Queer, a lover of nature and books, a mom, a survivor, and an educator. She writes poems about all of these things and lives in Portland. Jenn’s poetry has ...

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be ...

Poetry has been a healing tool since the shamans, who chanted poetry for the wellbeing of the tribe. In modern times, Freud recognized the genuis of poetry: ‘Not I, but the poet discovered the ...

Vancouver poet Jordan Redekop-Jones has won the 2025 CBC Poetry Prize for her poem Mixed Girl as Cosmogonic Myth.

Is it just me, or is Poetry Month everywhere this year? Poet Mary Ruefle had something to say about this: Every April, since the establishment of National Poetry Month, I receive a call from my local ...

During ANTIQUES ROADSHOW’s April 2018 visit to the Churchill Downs Racetrack in Louisville, Kentucky, a guest named Barry brought in a watercolor painting that had caught his eye at a local charity ...

Back in the day, everyone was convinced that if you played rock albums backwards you would hear Satanic messages, and then a bunch of idiots freaked out because "Teh Beatles is subliminally trying to ...

On Sunday, Nov. 16, members of Stillpoint Literary Magazine joined the Athens community for a night of poetry readings, ...

Known for praising the city with “big shoulders,” the beloved 1914 composition recently was recited in a ruling addressing ...

The National Book Foundation announced on Thursday the winner of the 2018 Innovations in Reading Prize, its annual social-impact-through-literature award. Each year the foundation honors one ...