CLEVELAND, Ohio – Literary Cleveland, the nonprofit organization and creative writing center working to elevate local writers and their work, is bringing back their Cleveland Poetry Festival.

As part of Poetry Day Ireland 2025, twelve poems have been selected following a national call out to respond to this year's theme, May Day - read The Laying Hen by Rosamund Taylor below.

A lot of us learned about the revolutionary sprint through Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s iconic poem that begins, “Listen, my children, and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.” ...

They'll never hold a job. They'll never play baseball. They'll never write a poem. They'll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted." In mid-April 2025, a rumor ...

Ever thought about writing a poem? Why not take the leap? In a new series, award-winning poet Jessica Traynor shares insights to help you find your voice. On a cold day, around a decade ago ...

“They’ll never hold a job. They’ll never play baseball. They’ll never write a poem. They’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted. We have to recognize ...

Ashley Bourget called her poem “Small Child” – but it contained a big, glaring comment that kept it out of a jailhouse poetry-writing competition. Instead, her creative writing from October ...

Several activists have contested the theory. Actors and writers have taken to social media to recite some of the poems she wrote in prison, in a show of solidarity. Actor Swara Bhasker shared a ...

He has autism and Tourette’s syndrome and is in special education classes at the school. He spends much of his recess time alone, standing near the fence separating the school grounds from the forest.

For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ interactive technology to analyze a single poem at a time.

On any given week, you might hear an excerpt from the final draft of a tale of demonic possession and ghostly hauntings, a poem about the tragic end of one of Old MacDonald’s cows, an eclectic tale of ...

The mother-daughter symphony is sometimes disturbed, but mostly maintained. It must have taken her restraint in her performance to make the film look like a poem in motion, and kudos to her for being ...