Atlanta is home to some of the most accomplished and celebrated poets in the country. To celebrate National Poetry Month, we’ve rounded up 13 collections by Atlanta poets.

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

What’s your favorite Langston Hughes poem? Maybe it’s one you grew up with. Maybe it’s one you stumbled across in a moment of ...

Snow-tipped chimneys, fresh pine, lively carols and gifts wrapped with care: For over a century, Christmas poems have captured the magic of the most wonderful time of the year. While many people ...

"The Penguin Lessons" closely mirrors the narrative structure of "My Penguin Friend," offering ... The delightful moments, such as Michell engaging students through poetry and his budding bond with ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...

It could be a short or a long poem. It could be free verse, narrative or acrostic, dub or spoken word. Anything goes. Make it as descriptive as you like. The more expressive a poem is, the more chance ...

Plato called epic poetry a mixture of dramatic and narrative literature because long speeches make a big part of both Iliad and Odyssey. The Greeks regarded the two great epic poems as something more ...

MATT WALSH (HOST): Now, of course, when this dumb politician says that America no longer represents what the statue symbolizes, he's talking mainly about the poem on the statue. Like, what does ...