Reading like the lyrics to a popular song or poem from modern times, ancient Greek poems have prompted new insights into ...

For a writing exercise, Purpura suggested taking a work-in-progress piece to an unfamiliar space and reading it aloud, taking ...

From ancient epics to modern masterpieces, poetry has shaped our understanding of humanity. Join us as we celebrate the ...

In four new collections, a frank look at disability, a celebration of domestic life (and dogs), a gathering of hushed moments ...

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 ...

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch," "The early bird catches the worm" — these and other proverbs are poems ...

for example, economist Nouriel Roubini of New York University referred to the incipient stock market recovery as a dead cat bounce, predicting that the market would reverse course in short order ...

She writes about the cancer risks of H.R.T. without mentioning the women who can’t take H.R.T. at all—for example, the millions of women in this country who have estrogen-receptor-positive ...

What’s your favorite Langston Hughes poem? Maybe it’s one you grew up with. Maybe it’s one you stumbled across in a moment of need. Either way, I’d love to know why it matters to you.

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?