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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Where do poems come from? I’m asked that question a lot. Where do you get your ideas? Where do poems come from? After my school assembly programs, I like to allow time for students and teachers ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Heidi Mordhorst ... “You Are the Boss of Your Poem.” Children are the boss of very little these days. With few exceptions, their time is ...

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 ...