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

When children write poetry, they often jump in with only a vague idea then follow where it leads — adults can do that, too, ...

I am a child sitting at my wooden flip-top desk in my fourth-grade classroom listening to Miss Hudson read “The Road Not Taken,” Robert Frost’s poem about two paths and a crossroad.

Washington poet Eric Ode often finds ideas while out walking. Here he shares a poem inspired by the prickly (or not) holly ...

Culture For National Poetry Month, tell NPR about a poem that's changed your life April 22, 202411:09 AM ET Suzanne Nuyen Enlarge this image ...

Poetry from Daily Life: Do your part and provide a poem for a kid who needs one Alan Katz Special to the News-Leader ...

Whatever emotion you're feeling can be found in poetry. So when life brings you down, turn to these inspirational poems to lift your spirits.

The therapeutic effects of poetry can help patients, mental health professionals, and poets themselves.

Love poems are difficult to write and to read because they can be clichéd. This poem surrounds the topic of love versus sinking in it.

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.