When you fall in love, you sort of losing all rationality. So, you have to really think when it comes to writing poetry. Whether you're in a relationship or you're hoping to be in one with someone in ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages.

Google Poems are by far the simplest example of the art form this side of limericks. To create your very own piece, simply type part of a phrase into Google. The search engine’s autocomplete feature ...

Read Part 1: ‘I Am the Bridge’: How a poem being presented at an African cultural event in Arvada was created by 50 people from different ethnicities and cultures In the days leading up to her part in ...

I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions and traumatic events that come with being alive. When I was 12 years old, I was responsible for the death of my ...

April is National Poetry Month: 30 days set aside for the celebration of all things verse. Many of us here at Code Switch love poetry every month of the year, but we can't always make space for it in ...

“Once, I dreamwrote that I found my own remains in a desert that was partially in Chile and partially in Arizona,” writes Daniel Borzutzky in his poem, “Let Light Shine out of Darkness.” “Was I a ...

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CLEVELAND, Ohio – Ray McNiece has taken his poetry around the globe, performing on tours in Russia and Italy, writing new material at Florida’s Jack Kerouac house, and teaching in Singapore. But his ...