Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a ...

If you’ve ever talked about “the birds and the bees” or referenced “the best laid plans of mice and men,” then you’ve inadvertently quoted some of the English language’s most famous poets.

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

For National Poetry Month, city of Charleston poet laureate AsiahMae is reading a poem every day via a video on Instagram.