And it’s an art form that pretty much anyone can appreciate; a lot of poets write beautiful poems for kids, which help build ...

In this week's column, author Lesléa Newman offers some advice for overcoming the anxiety that stems from struggling to start ...

Essentially a declaration of his refusal to let this handicap ruin his life, the full poem says in bold words that you, and only you, are in charge of your destiny. To the bosom of God’s great ...

Some poems are long and densely packed with meaning, but others are like snapshots written to save an image, idea or scene, ...

you make your own path as you walk ... she worked to preserve and publish Native American poetry. And gives her life again to build the world. Lebanese American writer and activist Ameen ...

Changing one of these things changes your life. On a long walk, I realized that my life is like a poem in another way, too: My life, like a poem, is small and enormous. Let me explain. In a poem ...

Daughtry seems to agree. Right away, he admits the difficult truth: No matter how much you enjoy it, a poem can’t save your life. It can’t “Luke Cage” your skin in a Marvel Comics deus ex machina. But ...

It is unusual to publish nothing but your Collected Poems. Your productive life appears to be over the moment it begins: the rest is, by implication, a kind of coda. So it was in some ways ...

I won’t promise you that memorizing poetry will make your life better, but it will make you more: more in touch with language, with other minds, maybe with what you might yet become. Or maybe ...