Need to solve a challenging problem? Read or write some poetry! Compelling research demonstrates that poetry can accelerate ...

The cosmic calendar and Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” work in unlikely tandem in “The Life of Chuck,” filmmaker Mike Flanagan’s latest venture into Stephen King’s multitude-packed mind. As the ...

Author Matt Forrest Esenwine has some advice for would-be poets and creative types, and it all starts with a question: "What if ...?" ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Irene Latham, who lives on a lake in rural Alabama. Irene has loved poetry since childhood when her father introduced her to poems by Shel ...

Snapshots of life Poems are multi-splendored things. What poetry is doesn’t matter as much as what it does. Expectations and perceptions differ from reader to reader, from need to need.

April might scream summer, long weekends, school vacations but for a quiet bunch in Chennai, it means something else. It is the National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo), a celebration of poetry ...

A.O. Scott: I’ve always been interested in poetry. In a previous life, I was doing a Ph.D. in English, and the dissertation that I never wrote was about mid-20 th -century American poetry.

There are several free poetry e-letters, like Poem-a-Day, the newsletter of the Poetry Foundation, or Poem of the Week from Split This Rock. These sites also have archives you can browse, or you could ...

Some of the best poetry in the world is written about complicated love, wrong love, toxic love, but in the spirit of Valentine’s Day I’ve tried to get over my own hang-ups and share that ...

Maya Angelou, an influential visual poet, and civil rights activist, remains a cornerstone in Black history. Her work inspires courage, resilience, and to be proud of your culture. This legacy makes ...

Poetry initially provided a way to skirt around the state's restrictions but eventually the censors caught up. "The Syrian dictatorship was a very classic one," Almadhoun explains.