Joe Coelho looks at how poetry can be performed, bringing the words to life rather than keeping them on the printed page, in ...

The notion of poetry as words written on a page and read silently is a relatively recent historical development. Older, and perhaps more exciting, is the tradition of poetry as performance. Ancient ...

It’s been darker than usual this year. Let some light in at La Mama’s Poetry Electric Social Solstice party. Poems working for justice! Well, we can use all the help we can get to even begin to ...

The museum’s poet in residence for 2024 is putting poetry by deaf and hard-of-hearing artists on display. Abby Haroun performing at the Guggenheim on Wednesday night. Among her poems was one ...

Culturally, poetry is used in varied ways. Haikus, for example, juxtapose images of the everyday, while lyric poetry expresses the personal and emotional. Similarly, poets themselves come in a range ...