My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Heidi Mordhorst, who lives in Silver Spring, Maryland — a short bike ride from Washington, D.C. Heidi began writing poems early in childhood and ...

While this short poem is far from being romantic enough to use as a love quote, it’s a clever wordplay on the masterpiece of deception. And here’s an interesting tidbit about its poet, Walter ...

Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Covenant Olorunyomi, is a 17-year-old student from ...

The poem is a counterpoint to the American rhetoric of hard-earned success — for instance, Trump insisting that despite a million-dollar loan (which turned out to be $415 million) he was ...

A 17-minute film called secretprojectrevolution, co-directed by the iconic singer and Steve Klein, will be released on Sept. 24 at 2 p.m. EST to kick off her Art For Freedom project, which she ...

This short poem grapples with so many themes at once — seeing, being seen, desire, racism, selfhood and memory. The poem starts in a matter-of-fact fashion with a declarative, “I don’t like ...

Short poems take center stage in former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins' new collection, Musical Tables. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with the poet about his work and finding beauty in a couple of lines.

A too-short poem can ruin this effect, the effect of out-of-context-ness. When there is poem-out-of-view, you feel lucky, as if you might have found the bit that matters only to you.