Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

An archive has revealed a handwritten copy of a 200-year-old poem originally written to prove rhyming is easy after an argument at a breakfast table. Marking World Poetry Day, Longleat in Wiltshire ...

Physics and poetry both distil complexity into clarity. Learn how poetic structure can shape and express scientific ideas.

Loyola's Social Justice Week invited poet Shivani Gupta to instruct using the power of the pen to combat injustice.

Forget reggaeton or rap: for children in rural Cuba the epitome of cool is writing and singing a ten-line poem -- a art form ...

Unfortunately, not all children have the opportunity to develop a love of books early on in life. In particular, poorer ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

“I wanted to know: How do we structure policy ... every margin of every notebook was covered with poems or rhymes,” she says. “And then it was just gone. It was scary for me to realize ...

As they go behind the scenes of the poems, testing and pruning, exploring technical things like structure, rhyme and line endings, they reveal the imagination and the skill that makes poetry so ...

What I appreciate about her poems is that, while others often sing a doleful rhyme, she looks beyond the horizon ... stillness,’ ‘clarity in chaos,’ ‘wisdom in the curse,’ ‘structures of silence,’ and ...