He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

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

Emily Dickinson explained what the feeling of writing poetry is like, “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were ...

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

As an esteemed poet and a retired professor of philosophy at UW-Milwaukee, John Koethe kept those two worlds separate. “I ...

Every five-beat line lands on a stressed, rhymed syllable. It might be relevant that the term of art for this kind of rhyme is masculine; this is a poem about male power and a woman’s ingenious ...

Haiku can serve as a catalyst for discussion and creativity as students work together to create their own poems.

Stephanie Pacheco, a student at Borough of Manhattan Community College, wrote “Dear CUNY” to celebrate the value New York’s ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: maybe because it came as an unexpected gift from a friend or loved one, or in ...

Puerto Rican poet Mara Pastor delivered a poetry reading and discussion to the University of Connecticut community at Susan V. Herbst Hall on April 1.

Skye Jackson’s debut poetry collection, “Libre,” leads off with a poem that, back in 2021, won her deserved acclaim.

“Poetry is the art of compression, of saying in a few well-chosen words, enhanced with rhythm and musicality of language what might take many more words to express — far less memorably — in prose,” ...