As A regular and pretty energetic critic of American poetry from 1915 on, contributing editor of the Dial, American correspondent for the Athenaeum in London and the London Mercury, and editor of ...

Poetry is first and foremost a connection between oneself and their world. Poetry, now more than ever, is incredibly important. It is vital to our understanding of our existence. When I read or write ...

Since I've written poetry over the course of my life, I find inspirational poems healing a most fascinating subject. And poetry therapy is a valuable tool that can be used to release resistance and ...

When I’m teaching new poets about how to think about where a poem might be inside themselves, I often offer up the sonnet “Bright Star,” by John Keats. It begins: For those who don’t know the sonnet ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Charles Ghigna — Father Goose — who lives in Homewood, Alabama. Charles has been a writer for fifty years and loves to “celebrate life through the eyes ...

Imagine this, your father is in his 90s, he lives alone in a small rent-controlled apartment that has been his home for over 60 years. Covid is raging and you want to help your father not to feel so ...

The campaign hinges on the idea that many people don’t recognize themselves in current mental health campaigns or relate to the voices speaking to them. The spot uses spoken word poetry to help convey ...

(Medical Xpress)—New brain imaging technology is helping researchers to bridge the gap between art and science by mapping the different ways in which the brain responds to poetry and prose. Scientists ...

Rita Dove — former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize-winner, and the recipient of numerous lifetime-achievement Awards — is not yet ready to retire her voice. “A ‘lifetime-achievement award’ makes ...

One of my favorite poets is William Carlos Williams, the imagist poet who believed a poem could be like a painting — words that provoke a picture and initiate thought. Here’s his most famous poem: ...