As these moving short poems prove, you can work poetry into your daily life. ... 30 Short Poems That’ll Help You Read More Poetry This Year. RD.com, Getty Images. By Lauren Schenkman.

Teachers can have students create comics based on poems to better understand their themes and spark meaningful conversation.

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Short poems take center stage in former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins' new collection, Musical Tables. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with the poet about his work and finding beauty in a couple of lines.

The poems you read while young bear a burden they can’t be aware of: They have to represent the genre, they must show what poems are for. Short poems are especially good for this, because young ...

10 Best Maya Angelou Poems Everyone Should Read for Inspiration and Reflection. ... In this short but powerful poem, Angelou evokes the image of “blackness” as a nurturing, protective force.

This poem, which appeared near the beginning of “Firstborn,” Glück’s 1968 debut (published when she was in her mid-20s), does a lot in 11 short lines, balancing death and desire with a ...

Teatro Paraguas will present Short Forms, a special poetry reading featuring local poets Wayne Lee, Donald Levering, and Jane Lipman, on Sunday, June 29 at 5:00 p.m. at Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle ...

I’ve known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. One of the most famous Langston Hughes poems is also one of his earliest: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” was ...