The stanza hits the key points readers may expect of Plath’s poetry, and perhaps a poem more generally. It suggests a sense of despair as the writer struggles with internal demons. “Mess” and “chest” ...

Salaam Green, Birmingham's inaugural poet laureate, releases "The Other Revival," a poetry book about history and healing in ...

Many adults admit to not getting poetry. Given all that we face as adults, I don’t get it. One answer, I suspect, has to do ...

The opening poem of this year’s Magic City Poetry Festival paid reverence to Birmingham’s history. The month-long celebration of the literary art commenced Saturday morning with Alabama poet l ...

"We're bringing appreciation back to poetry and the art of spoken word." Rashan Brown thinks of poetry like this: "Imagine closing your eyes, and we're walking down a street, but you don't know ...

Then, the team researched the poem’s time period and each poets’ personal history to ensure their accuracy. About half of the poems contained precise location information, allowing the team to ...