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Today, we help you pay attention to the sound and feel of this week’s poem. Play our game to see how much you’ve already ...
Kerry Dorey is a multi-hyphenate: he’s an actor and a voice artist; he leads sound baths at Village Yoga; and—between you and me—he’s a member of Pemberton’s growing Secret Poetry ...
Starting today, we’ll have a week of games, videos and essays to help you along the way. First up: readings by Ina Garten, ...
For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ interactive technology to analyze a single poem at a time.
Poems can evoke laughter, tears, and thoughtful reflection. Recent research has shown their therapeutic effects: how they can reduce stress, relieve grief, and increase well-being.
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts ... they’ll never write a poem, they’ll never go out on a date.” Autistic poets write ...
The finals of the Poetry Out Loud high school poetry competition take place in Washington, D.C., this week. NPR asked some of this year's competitors about how to master a poem.
The best part of any good political theory is that you don’t have to agree with all of it to see its strengths and learn something. Although Marx’s most controversial and well known ideas are about ...
To encourage a deeper engagement, Inlandia was brought in to coordinate an insect-themed poetry contest. This year, the theme ...
Analyzing ancient Chinese poetry allowed researchers to understand where humans went wrong in protecting the now critically ...
The Rose Art Museum invited students to perform their poetry in conversation with Hugh Hayden’s exhibition, “Home Work.” I ...
Laughter, as I wrote in my March post, is good for our health. So is poetry! Evolutionary biologists tell us laughter has helped our species survive. Scientists may soon make that claim for poetry.