April is National Poetry Month. In Washington, it is also marked by a shedding of coats and a gorgeous display of cherry blossoms, magnolias and dogwood trees — nature, in full bloom. To celebrate, we ...

As a commuter tried to make out the words of Richard C. Shaner’s “Gilman Pond Mountain,” someone walked right over it. Partially funded through a $45,000 grant from the Federal Transit Administration ...

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Yesterday, we provided readers with a single line of “bad” poetry penned by local poet Rich Levy in a last-minute telephone conversation. We asked readers to mine their inner anti-poets to help us ...

Clockwise from top left: Walt Whitman, Robert Lowell, Virginia Woolf, Yusef Komunyakaa, Adrienne Rich, Langston Hughes, Denise Levertov. Photo illustration by Slate. Photos via Wikimedia Commons. O ...

A line from one of the world’s most famous poems, “The New Colossus,” by Jewish poetess Emma Lazarus, has been eliminated as “offensive from a plaque at Idlewild Airport. The line is “The wretched ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Oregon Poet Laureate Anis Mojgani has brought back the Tele-Poem Telephone Line for National Poetry Month. Poetry-lovers can call 503-928-7008 to hear Mojgani and other Oregon ...