Marie Zhuikov has already published four books, but her recently-released fifth is her first collection of poetry.

Guardian country diarist Mark Cocker judges novel excerpt winner of prize worth €1,000 and a week at Moth’s Irish writing ...

Limón is in the midst of visiting seven national parks and unveiling poetry installations on accessible picnic tables that have been turned into works of art. Part of Ada Limón’s signature project as ...

Poet and author Stephanie Oakey debuts her first book, Poems of a Southern Nobody, a collection of over 60 poems that explores the kinship between nature, people, and time. She paints a vivid picture ...

April is National Poetry Month. In Washington, it is also marked by a shedding of coats and a gorgeous display of cherry blossoms, magnolias and dogwood trees — nature, in full bloom. To celebrate, we ...

Longley resisted the temptation ‘to write the poem of the latest [terrorist] atrocity. We knew there was no point in versifying opinion’ - Irish Eye/Alamy Michael Longley, who has died aged 85, was a ...

Whether as metaphors, decorations or (literal) forces of nature, clouds are everywhere in poetry. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal ...

Cycle one: Just looking. We must be careful / Ed Roberson -- Earth is a living thing / Lucille Clifton -- Mountains of California, part I / Al Young -- Mountain road ends here / G.E. Patterson -- ...

With a series of poetic park installations and a new anthology, the U.S. poet laureate hopes to remind visitors and readers of their stake in the natural world. Around two years ago, Ada Limón started ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...