Then write not just about what you hear and see, but address it directly. Here, as an example, is a poem I recently wrote on one of the last warm days of autumn. I heard a buzzing sound from the ...

You can take a poem with you anywhere, but knowing its origins can help make it yours. Practice by playing our poetry emoji game.

Those features — the imagery and the sound; what your mind’s eye sees and your physical ears hear — are what make “Recuerdo” a poem, and paying attention to how they work can help us ...

As an autistic English professor who studies literature and neurodiversity, I was especially unnerved by Kennedy’s contention that many autistic people will never write poetry. It couldn’t be ...