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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 ...
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.
When Ada Limón became the U.S. Poet Laureate in 2022, she took that moment she used that moment to reflect on poetry's power ...
Two stars of the popular Netflix reality dating show Love on the Spectrum said Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s controversial comments ...
The word love is elusive, a noun without context. However, its verb form, "loving," is more than the thing. It invokes poetry ...
Perhaps that’s what those fabled punters want: not a Trump-inspired disruptor, nor a radical visionary, but the kind of bloke ...
When love walks away with someone else, it hurts, but it can also be the start of your rebirth. These 4 heartbreak poems will ...
The British Museum’s major new tribute to the 19th-century Japanese master Utagawa Hiroshige is an exquisite foil for modern ...
Apr. 30—"I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree," the poet Joyce Kilmer wrote. But why choose? At Albuquerque's annual Poets Picnic at the Open Space Visitor Center, you can have ...
In a region where storytelling is a birthright, three literary powerhouses— T&T/Scottish poet Anthony Vahni Capildeo, Haitian ...
Gwendolyn Brooks grew up in a South Side house full of books and was a poet from an early age, eventually becoming the first ...