It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

April is National Poetry Month, a time to celebrate the literary genre that gives us answers to questions we don’t know how to ask, creates connection and wisdom, shows us the beauty and rhythm ...

For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ interactive technology to analyze a single poem at a time.

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...

Breathing art into the void. Magic. Reflection. “I didn’t used to read much poetry,” he says. “I had a hard time. I was too distracted. In poetry, you can’t be thinking about something else.

It is a time when the flowers begin to bloom and kittens are born. Below are some of my favorite poems about spring and joy and the innocence and beauty of childhood. “Spring” by William Blake ...

Poems have been read out and attached to newly planted trees in honour of writer and poet Benjamin Zephaniah. The 65 readings were carried out in Burbury Park in Birmingham on Saturday, following ...

Poetry Moment Presented by Spokane Public Radio, Poetry Moment is a program that showcases myriad poems as read by poets and poetry lovers from across the Inland Northwest — and occasionally ...

I thought maybe I was having heat-related hallucinations. I had begun writing poetry to work through my emotions around the hard parts of my life — not just teenage crushes, but also suicidal ...

In one of the more benign instances, the researchers elicited glimpses of Claude’s thought process while it wrote poems. They asked Claude to complete a poem starting, “He saw a carrot and had ...

The fact that these two poems were published speaks for itself. Away the years fly as tears go by. You are not a fool to cry, you are human. Do you wish for immortality? You can’t always get ...