Not only is “If—” a moving letter from father to son, it’s also one of the most famous works of poetry. In fact, a 1995 BBC ...

As these moving short poems prove, you can work poetry into your daily life. Skip to main content. ... Despite having only two lines, this short poem is a strong example of imagism, ...

30 Short Poems That'll Help You Read More Poetry This Year. ... Why even I myself I often think know little or nothing of my real life, Only a few hints, a few diffused faint clews and indirections ...

John Koethe spent decades as a philosophy professor. The poems in his latest collection, “Cemeteries and Galaxies,” are full ...

LITTLE POEMS (Everyman’s Library, $18), a new anthology edited by Michael Hennessy, provides a history of short poems since antiquity, from Sappho to Ocean Vuong, a lovely pocket-size volume ...

How memorizing poetry can expand your life. I was always a reluctant reader of poetry, but memorizing a poem every week gave me a new understanding of myself.

This week's column is written by David L. Harrison, the host of Poetry from Daily Life. David, who lives in Springfield, made up his first poem more than eighty years ago and is currently Poet ...

Life, in all its savage beauty. The first Perillo poem I read was “The Ghost Shirt.” It has a time stamp — “Museum of Natural History, NYC, 5/1/92, the first day of the riots’’ — and ...

Short poems take center stage in former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins' new collection, Musical Tables. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with the poet about his work and finding beauty in a couple of lines.