Poetry is one of the most powerful art forms we have. Since ancient times, poems — from haikus to sonnets to limericks — have succinctly and beautifully translated the joys and sorrows of the world ...

Humans spend most of their waking hours playing with what novelist Rudyard Kipling called “the most powerful drug used by mankind”—words. In the laboratories of our minds, we sort, slice, and string ...

In 1968, Margaret Ackerman of the University of Arizona authored a paper for The English Journal in which she included a summary of what poetry meant to most of her students: “sentimentality, ...

In “Upstream,” a book of essays, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver wrote: “Attention is the beginning of devotion.” I believe attention is not only the beginning of devotion but also of wisdom, ...

“In the particular is the universal,” said James Joyce. In Forest of Noise, the particular is the Israel-Hamas war and the suffering of the Gazans, as recorded by the award-winning poet Mosab Abu Toha ...

I BEGAN writing poetry because one Sunday afternoon in March 1922, a friend suggested that I should: the thought had never occurred to me. I scarcely knew any poems — The English Hymnal, the Psalms, ...

But growing up, the 26-year-old'sview of poetry was heavily influenced by those two men, "both of whom were writers who have experiences that I didn't identify with as a working-class Salvadoran girl ...

This summer, on a lark, I took a course on poetry geared toward Christian leaders. Twelve of us met over Zoom to read poems and discuss the intersection of our faith, vocations and poetry. We compared ...

Poetry has always been a uniquely human endeavor, a medium where emotion and intellect merge to create something timeless. Yet, research is challenging this assumption. A new study reveals that AI is ...

After four decades, the annual book series is drawing to a close. Our columnist looks at what it all meant. By Elisa Gabbert I wonder if there has ever been more equivocation about the word “best” and ...