Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

At the most extreme, some forms of constrained writing are even more self-limiting and end up being very, very constrained ...

Compose your own poetry. Start with a subject you’re enthusiastic ... Here are a few striking samples that highlight the raw emotional depth and passion infusing the genre.

In this week's column, author Lesléa Newman offers some advice for overcoming the anxiety that stems from struggling to start ...

cited a number of studies (some with small sample sizes, admittedly) showing various health benefits from reading, writing and listening to poetry and creative nonfiction. They have been shown to ...

That was the moment I fell in love with poetry. I begged my parents to buy the children’s book for me so I could read and re-read my favorites, and decades later, the tattered hardcover (the ...

George Selden's words from "The Cricket in Times Square" inspired Poem Renovation's Dec. 16 challenge. CLIFTON PARK — In good times and bad, Kelly de la Rocha always turns to poetry ...

provides a history of short poems since antiquity, from Sappho to Ocean Vuong, a lovely pocket-size volume with several hundred brief, chronological examples of what poetry can do. I read it cover ...