Megan Grumbling is a poet and writer who lives in Portland. Deep Water: Maine Poems is produced in collaboration with the ...

Leah Hochhalter, from Valley City High School, was the 2025 North Dakota Poetry Out Loud State Champion. Listen as she recites "Listening in Deep Space" by Diane Thiel. Poetry Out Loud is a high ...

It's National Poetry Month and we are highlighting some Chicago-area winners of the Pulitzer Center’s Fighting Words Poetry Contest. That contest is open to students in Kindergarten through 12th ...

Finish story here; 20 Essential Claude McKay Poems Everyone Should Read: A Deep Dive Into His Literary Legacy.

Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling. This week’s poem, by Sara Lynn Eastler, considers the life of rock and water. I love how this poem moves into ever more intimate ...

But this time he focuses on how art, and poetry in particular, both expresses and responds to the unique human experience of “being modern.” We live in a world that the gods have fled and ...

"Kaya has been, and is now even more, one of their leaders for a community full of deep, thoughtful, creative and artistic writers and performers." Typically, poet laureates have their poems ...