Poetry wasn’t for me. Then, Emma Dryden, my wonderful editor at Simon and Schuster, asked me to write a book of poetry. I didn’t think I could, but she convinced me to give it a shot.

Works by Ada Limón and Peter Sís, Randy Cecil, Lucy Ruth Cummins and more depict the poetry, wonder and droll humor inspired ...

Who started it? Inspired by the successful celebrations of Black History Month (February) and Women's History Month (March), the Academy of American Poets established National Poetry Month in 1996.

Other highpoints include a meditative ekphrastic poem “Three Colours Black ... pages after “Adam” the poem, one encounters what seems to me the strongest poem in a book full of strong poems ...

Elmo Kelley, a second-grade teacher at Fontana’s Cypress Elementary School, has published two poetry collections and last school year helped his students create their own book of poetry.

This was certainly part of an arc from my first book, All We Can Save, with Katharine Wilkinson. We brought in climate comics ...

"I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies" by June Jordan JOSÉ OLIVAREZ: I’m attracted to the way the poem’s rage is grounded in ...

For Black History Month, Blue Peter commissioned some special poems by black spoken word artists to celebrate black history and to take action and work together to build a better future for people ...

PW’s editors select an enticing variety of works for adults, from holiday-themed mysteries to sweeping poetry anthologies.

A total of 1,917 books were submitted for the National Book Awards, which honors fiction, nonfiction, young people's literature, poetry and translated ... The Unboxing of a Black Girl.

By J. D. Biersdorfer Our critic on new books by Stephanie Wrobel, Lawrence Robbins and Hildur Knútsdóttir. By Sarah Lyall A graphic tribute to the British novelist who documented the blight ...