poetry
Amanda Gorman's Poetry Opened The Door, And 'Let Everyone In'
The 22-year-old poet is the right messenger for this pivotal time in our history, writes January Gill O'Neil.
George The Poet's Genre-Bending Call For Change
We talk to George the Poet about his podcast (full of music, poetry, radio drama, fantasy) and his lifelong push for social change.
'Duke Rhymes With Puke': One Family's NCAA Poetry Smackdown
Tremaine Monshizadeh and her grandma Audrey Versteeg had very different feelings about the Duke men's basketball team. So they trash talked via poem.
Super Bowl Haiku XXVI
Only A Game's beloved tradition continues.
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith's Poetry Road Trip Across America
A conversation with the Pulitzer Prize winning-poet Tracy K. Smith. She spent a year traveling the country as U.S. poet laureate. Where did she go?
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A Conversation With Joy Harjo, The First Native American Poet Laureate
The new poet laureate of the United States is also the first Native American appointed to the post. We'll talk with Joy Harjo.
How One WNBA Player Found Her Purpose In Poetry
Imani McGee-Stafford is a center for the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream. She says poetry helped save her life.
The Story Of A Poet's Obsession With The NBA's D'Angelo Russell
Poet Mikko Harvey is obsessed with Brooklyn Nets guard D'Angelo Russell. "I google him constantly," Harvey says. "It's the weirdest thing I do."
Poem: Put That Phone Away!
For those of you who look at your phones even when you are supposed to be relaxing, this is for you.
Poem: Hostility To Stability
Cognoscenti's poet of the political scene, Erika Fine, reflects, in verse, on our commander in chief's reaction to a new book about the Trump White House.
Poem: If Asked, Should Championship Teams Visit The White House?
Each player has a voice, writes Bill Littlefield, and every invitation is a chance to make a choice.
It’s Poetry Month: Side Effects May Include A Respite From All That News
Verse offerings from Somerville poet Ed Meek.
Boston Poet Duy Doan On Vietnamese Heritage, Bilingual Poetry
Duy Doan is the recipient of this year's Yale Younger Poets Prize, a prestigious poetry award for poets who have not yet published a book.
Reliving The Poetry Of Derek Walcott
We’ll dive once more into the dazzling literary legacy of Nobel Prize-winning Caribbean poet and playwright Derek Walcott.
Up In The Rare Air: Class With Derek Walcott
A former student of the late poet and playwright, who died Friday at the age of 87, recalls the Nobel laureate's "brilliant terror."
If Trump Won't Give Us Inauguration Poetry, Let Us Read Whitman
Writer Leslie Lawrence was 10 when she saw her first president sworn in. She remembers only the inaugural poet, Robert Frost. This year, she calls on Americans to read the...
When Even Words Fail
Since Election Day, writes Aine Greaney, I learned that poetry-as-therapy has its limitations. This time, for this tragedy, the words don't assuage, and new ones -- my own -- won’t...
'We Want The World And We Want It Now': The Hot Glow Of Art In Post-Election America
Political movements grow through the press of bodies and the melding of voices in songs and poetry, writes Julie Wittes Schlack.
Poem: A Conversation Between Two Liberals
Voters who are disheartened by Donald Trump’s victory are reacting in different ways. Cognoscenti's poet of the political scene, Erika Fine, captures, in verse, a "conversation" between an escapist and...
Poem: Trump, Unfurled
Cognoscenti's poet of the political scene, Erika Fine, reflects, in verse, on the stunning outcome of the election.