Marge Piercy (b. March 31, 1936) is an American feminist poet and novelist who has written 17 books of poetry, including The Moon Is Always Female (1980), which is considered a feminist classic.

Three people affected by dementia wrote about their experiences with dementia for World Poetry Day. Read their dementia poems and more. Writing a poem about how you or a loved one has been affected by ...

Late summer hovers near In early fall, Old pre-dawn pall Of hot damp dark and all We know and fear. Night sweats its star-bead stream Down nothing’s brow, Light’s here and now That leaves stark depths ...

Enid Osborn’s new poetry collection, Pedregosa St., is a special volume of poetry which spans 28 years of living in a hundred ...

Poetry is everywhere, especially in places you would least expect it to be. Even the most mundane texts — be it a news article or street advertising — have poetry within them. Such is the sentiment ...

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David Lehman is a poet and an editor for The Best American Poetry series. Three of my favorite poems of 2011 share a sense of mystery and the uncanny — a spooky but also exhilarating glimpse of a ...

Photograph by Ron/Comstock/Jupiterimages/Thinkstock. Click the arrow on the audio player to hear T.R. Hummer read "Imperial." You can also download the recording or ...

Each Thursday, The Arty Semite features excerpts and reviews of the best contemporary Jewish poetry. This week, Jake Marmer introduces three poems by Alicia Ostriker. Alicia Ostriker, winner of the ...

To explore different types of poetry and write your own haiku poem. This is a chef. He's not going to make food though. No. He is going to make a poem. Stop that!The main ingredient in a poem is words ...