At one time or another, when face-to-face with a poem, most everyone has been perplexed. The experience of reading a poem itself is as likely to turn us off, intellectually or emotionally, as it is to ...

Poetry and translation are both about picking the just-right word. But reading multiple translations makes an implicit case for celebrating abundance and variety. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s ...

In his blog, “The Power of Patterns in teaching,” published in The Robb Review, Oct. 4, 2022, Dr. Timothy Rasinski explains that English has many word-patterns that can be used to teach reading. In ...

The greatest casualty of our education system? Poetry. Either you’re from an older generation and you know a few lines by ...

For 23 years, A.O. Scott was a film critic for the New York Times. For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ ...

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of ...

National Poet Laureate Arthur Sze will host a free public reading, “Words Bridging Worlds: On Poetry and Translation,” at ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story incorrectly listed the number of performers who could qualify for prizes of $1,000-$20,000, plus money for their schools, in the national Poetry Out Loud ...

Nearly a half-century after publication, an Allen Ginsberg poem about a homosexual encounter has divided a small Connecticut town and led to the resignation of an award-winning English teacher. In ...

From the sonnets of William Shakespeare to the writings of Walt Whitman and the rejuvenating words of Amanda Gorman, poetry is indelibly writ into the fabric of not only popular culture, but the ...

Recite these cozy Christmas poems to share the holiday spirit and make even your Grinchiest loved ones say, "Ho, ho, ho!" Snow-tipped chimneys, fresh pine, lively carols and gifts wrapped with care: ...

Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form with this list of the most famous poems ever written. What jumps into your ...