The lines which ... leaves with a verse or two. Once she sent her one of George Eliot's books, I think Middlemarch, and wrote, "I am bringing you a little granite book for you to lean upon." At other ...

You can read Minneapolis poet Danez Smith’s work in two new books or, if you happen to be in New York, on subway walls.

L ate in his career, the English poet W. H. Auden distilled the whole business of poetry into three pungent lines: “A poet’s ...

Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences. A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 lines written ... to fetch GBP 2.5-3.5 million.

Anyone can read a poem. Anyone can write a poem. Quite a few people can write a pretty decent poem with a little effort. And ...

Listening to the Poem: Enlist two volunteers and listen as the poem is read aloud twice. Write down any additional words and ...

Reading the Poem: Silently read the poem “ Let America Be America Again ” by Langston Hughes. What do you notice about the ...

Any anthology is a product of its editor’s decisions. In “ 100 Great Catholic Poems ” (Word on Fire, $34.95), editor Sally ...

You’ve sung them while clutching cups of hot cocoa. You’ve heard them played in shopping malls. But do you know how some of ...

Once, when Ben Bernthal was selling street poetry — he takes three words from a stranger, and turns them into a poem on the spot — a man came up and told him to write a poem about “why it matters.” ...

The specific seething spareness of the New England said/unsaid lives in Abbie Kiefer’s debut collection of poetry, “Certain Shelter” (June Road). Death hovers, “bodies stop being,” as ...

and connect with like-minded individuals through poetry. According to 2021 data from the Arizona Department of Health Services, the suicide rate among Arizona veterans is more than three times higher ...