Using their analytical skills when interacting with stanzas for the first time helps students uncover deeper meaning in ...

When you spend time with poetry, you expect a certain kind of relationship between author and reader. That’s only part of ...

Poems don’t give you news, they give you inspiration. Poems don’t give you knowledge, they heighten your sensitivity. Poems don’t give you information, they increase your empathy.

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

movements and subgenres than anybody can read in a lifetime. So where should you start for the best poems about life and all its ups and downs? Make your way through this list, and you’ll find ...

It’s not just that we’re in an economic meltdown. It’s how we got here that blows,” writes columnist Stephanie Finucane.

Artist Loryn Brantz aims to help parents feel seen through the moments of frustration, laughter and love that come with ...

O, Miami Poetry Festival gets underway with a new public art initiative: “Soy de Todas Partes.” The civic publishing project ...

Night Sky With Exit Wounds is the haunting debut poetry collection by the winner of the 2017 TS Eliot Prize, Ocean Vuong.

At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for ...

A Miami poet discusses her Zip Ode poem about buying her own stolen bike, and how she views this as a quintessential Miami ...

In her new memoir, "I Am Maria: My Reflections and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home" (to be published ... a woman in search of herself. Read some selected poems below ...