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 ...

Aileen Cassinetto’s “Catalog of Cures in Ordinary Time” establishes that necessary urgency in the first line and maintains it ...