Some poems are long and densely packed with meaning, but others are like snapshots written to save an image, idea or scene, ...

Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form ...

Caring for loved ones with Alzheimer’s or dementia is often stressful and isolating. For caregivers in a Sacramento poetry ...

In a poetic call-and-response across time zones and tensions, a book unearths the invisible layers of city life, writes ABHI ...

Aileen Cassinetto’s “Catalog of Cures in Ordinary Time” establishes that necessary urgency in the first line and maintains it ...

Scientists studied more than 700 ancient Chinese poems that mention the Yangtze finless porpoise to determine its population ...

Poets are being asked to explore their personal connections with beloved songs in a new anthology from Fermata Press, which ...

The young Black woman wanted her grandmother to see her in the sanctuary and “to run to her Hershey-­sweet brown arms” and receive a “coconut rabbit cake on a jelly-bean platter; every year under the ...

The three stanzas track the arrival of morning. We see the first light: It’s a modern poem with ancient roots ... the best-known examples come from the Renaissance — from Donne, the ...

Once you’ve got these, you’ve learned a third of the poem, since this repeating couplet functions as a mini-chorus at the start of each stanza ... As these examples suggest, there’s a ...

Um, I'm an avid fan of Robert Frost, for example. Uh ... technique used to just be read the whole poem, say it be done. Now it's, I break it up into stanzas and I say each stanza and then I ...