At one time or another, when face-to-face with a poem, most everyone has been perplexed. The experience of reading a poem itself is as likely to turn us off, intellectually or emotionally ...

"That keeps us from developing personal relationships with poetry." So rest easy as you read a poem — there's no quiz at the end! People often put pressure on themselves to crack a poem ...

But, whether it’s poetry for adults or for kids, it’s not always so easy to read poetry well aloud. Here are some tips on how to do it.

When poets read their work for a crowd, it’s just about as vulnerable and human as it gets. Poetry becomes communication, a back-and-forth dialogue between poet and audience. This is true of ...