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 ...

Longtime educator and author Laura Robb explains how daily practice with poems helped her granddaughter become a better ...

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.

Starting today, we’ll have a week of games, videos and essays to help you along the way. First up: readings by Ina Garten, ...

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 ...

Your reading habits can be more than just calming, they can be therapeutic. Here's how bibliotherapy works and how to add it ...

Sandra Cisneros, the award-winning author of “The House on Mango Street,” visited Pick-Staiger Concert Hall Wednesday to read ...

Confounded by a confusing expression or dream from a patient, I might seemingly shift gears and ask myself, 'What if this ...

We published it about a year ago, and there was great response, lots of people read it. The comments were great and a lot of people said, “I’m not interested in poems so much, but this was ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with former U.S. poet laureate, Joy Harjo, about her book "Washing My Mother's Body" where she ...

In this episode, The Daily covers open mic poetry reading at the Evanston Public Library to celebrate National Poetry Month.