Funny poems are tough to pull off. I’m not talking here about poems with humor in them; almost every good poem has at least one funny thing smuggled inside it. No, I mean poems with punch lines, poems ...

Anis Mojgani Anis Mojgani reading poems from his studio. Photo by Chelsea Querner. Oregon’s poetry hotline is back in service. Oregon poet laureate Anis Mojgani has relaunched the Tele-Poem Telephone ...

As a serious book lover, there have been plenty of different books that have meant different things to me throughout my life — Beverly Cleary and L.M. Montgomery stories in my pre-teens; Sarah Dessen ...

American poet Emily Dickinson. A mystical recluse, she lived all her life in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily Dickinson was a 19th-century American poet whose name has become synonymous with classic ...