Emerging research finds that poetry can help us feel happier, healthier, and more connected to each other.

Heather Lende, Alaska's previous Writer Laureate, shares a poem read on a cold, dark night during a dinner with friends.

I was always a reluctant reader of poetry, but memorizing a poem every week gave me a new understanding of myself.

It might not have seemed like it at the time, but all those schoolyard rhymes you memorized as a kid were poems in disguise.

Reading Rosal’s poem again made me pull out some tajin, and slice some apples, and remember how poems create a heart’s history and remind us of home.

When we remember the Holocaust only as a universal parable of racial hatred and religious stigmatization, we miss its full import as an attack against Jews as Jews.

Bhumi Pednekar has written a heart-wrenching poem on her late father’s birthday, recalling all the things he did for his family and how they remember him after his death.

So the crisis has perhaps brought poetry – with its ability to make the abstract more concrete, its ability to distil and clarify, its ability to reflect the surreal and strange world we now ...

I remember saying our goodbyes as we entered our next class and “I love you” slipped out of my lips without me realizing it. I remember the huge smile on his face as he processed what I had said, ...