As these moving short poems prove, you can work poetry into your daily life. ... 30 Short Poems That’ll Help You Read More Poetry This Year. RD.com, Getty Images. By Lauren Schenkman.

You can read the rest of this beautiful and moving poem in Harper’s 1901 poetry collection Idylls of the Bible. And be sure to read these Amanda Gorman poems for a modern-day perspective on ...

Teachers can have students create comics based on poems to better understand their themes and spark meaningful conversation.

A simple, short poem with a fixed refrain, Hattie Howard’s “Let Us Give Thanks” gets to the core of what makes this holiday very special: good company, deep gratitude and heartfelt celebrations.

The poems you read while young bear a burden they can’t be aware of: They have to represent the genre, they must show what poems are for. Short poems are especially good for this, because young ...

This poem, which appeared near the beginning of “Firstborn,” Glück’s 1968 debut (published when she was in her mid-20s), does a lot in 11 short lines, balancing death and desire with a ...

Short poems take center stage in former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins' new collection, Musical Tables. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with the poet about his work and finding beauty in a couple of lines.

Sometimes we all need a cathartic cry. If that’s you today, then give these beautiful and moving poems, selected by women including Judi Dench, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Elena Ferrante, a ...

Read on to learn why poetry might make you feel better in a fairly dark world. * Stop-press news 🗞️ The FCA is not going ahead with its proposed changes to diversity and inclusion rules for ...

April always brings some of the years' biggest poetry collections. So as it wraps up, we wanted to bring you two favorites — retrospective collections from Marie Howe and Jean Valentine.