Today, we help you pay attention to the sound and feel of this week’s poem. Play our game to see how much you’ve already ...

Memorizing a poem is like taking a work of art that you love and letting it live and bloom inside of you.

For 20 years, teens from around the country have come to Washington, D.C. to compete in the national Poetry Out Loud finals.

CCP is giving most of the fan blood to the Blood Bank of Iceland, while keeping some to write a calfskin illuminated ...

April is National Poetry Month. Poets share advice on how to make a meaningful connection with the art form. One tip? Think of the poem like a movie or a play — and you're the director.

Poems can evoke laughter, tears, and thoughtful reflection. Recent research has shown their therapeutic effects: how they can reduce stress, relieve grief, and increase well-being.

Anyuolo goes further by not only observing her many-layered innards, denoted as multitudes, composed of varying thoughts, ...

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But it can “hold you and scold you at the same time,” Daughtry writes; it can “make you float . . . introduce you to yourself . . . I wonder where we’d be if the masses knew / just what a poem could ...

AGAWAM — When Abigail Drumm, a senior at Agawam High School, won the Poetry Out Loud competition recently, she beat 17,400 ...

An admired and longtime poet whose subjects range from school integration to the memories of Holocaust survivors has won a ...

Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah still remembers hearing the first poem that moved him.