It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

Sometimes, when you read a poem, it feels as if it were crafted just for you, as though the poet could see directly into your ...

Poetry provides all these treasures and, even if we accept one of them, it restores our ability to cope, and our sense of ...

Pink Dust, a collection about aging and death, offers an optimistic vision of life as a continual act of reading.

Use rhythm, repetition, and rhyme, and rearrange the found words to create your own powerful poem. What if you could write a poem without using your own words? Jeff Kass shows you how to create a ...

This week’s poem, John Paul Caponigro’s “Worms,” is only partially a poem about eating worms. It is also an example of a Japanese form called a haibun, which combines conversational prose poetry with ...

Over the river, and through the wood, To grandfather’s house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh Through the white and drifted snow. Over the river, and through the wood— Oh, how the ...

A.O. Scott, who reviewed movies for The New York Times for more than two decades, is now a roving critic for the Book Review. Credit...Lorena Spurio Supported by By Sarah Bahr Times Insider explains ...