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 ...

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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 ...

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The word love is elusive, a noun without context. However, its verb form, "loving," is more than the thing. It invokes poetry ...

Why do we turn to poetry? Ask a hundred people and you'll get a hundred answers. Still, the underlying thread of truth is ...

Harvey’s frames portray a convergence of human and natural action, not to synthesize or balance the two but to show the ...

but for the poems that we’re selecting—to have a sense that there’s a writer here. There’s a poet, or even just a persona, who is trying to say something, and the way that it’s being ...