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

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 ...

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

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 ...

uses the power of poetry to help clients heal from difficult life events and painful emotions while, at the same time, helping them use their imaginations to rediscover their sense of wonder ...

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 ...

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 ...

Love is also expressed as something that lives “in the life” — it isn’t the whole life. The poem is written in second ... if they saved you in your wild incapacities, in timing of the ...