Poetry

WHYY's Morning Edition listeners celebrate their neighborhoods through haiku during National Poetry Month.

To mark the end of National Poetry Month, Ursula Rucker sat down with WHYY’s Jennifer Lynn to discuss her writing.

Seventeen years after the HBO show ‘Def Poetry Jam’ went off the air, co-creator Danny Simmons is reviving the spoken word showcase in Philadelphia.

Raquel Salas Rivera won $50,000 from the Academy of American Poets and will use a portion of to fund a summer poetry festival between Philadelphia and Boston.

Poet Richard Blanco describes himself as being "made in Cuba, assembled in Spain, imported to the USA" and his poems, focusing largely on national identity, reflect this.

West Philadelphia Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell directed public land to be sold at below-market prices to developer Rick Young. Now he’s hosting a fundraiser for her.

The series of short films bring Walt Whitman’s poetry to Alabama where regular folks recite lines from ‘Song of Myself.’

The award, which comes with a $165,000 purse, is given every two years from Yale University to an American poet for lifetime achievement on the event of a new publication.

Earlier in November, we asked our readers and listeners to share what about America they are most thankful for.

Wes Matthews, 17, has been named Philadelphia's youth poet laureate. He moved here from Detroit just a year ago.

Part science fiction, part medieval reinterpretation, “feeld” by trans poet Jos Charles can feel like a puzzle, making readers work for its meaning.

Vietnam vets gather in Center City to share contributions to a new anthology of poetry about the scars of war.

A Philadelphia judge has sentenced two brothers to life in prison without parole for fatally shooting a police officer in 2015. Two Cong ...

Just over a month ago, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum opened in Montgomery, Alabama, dedicated to the victims of white supremacy in the Unit

Discover the interstellar potential of spoken word.