People often put pressure on themselves to crack a poem, unlock its meaning or figure out what the poet was trying to say. Don't do it, says Harryette Mullen, a poet and professor of English at ...

April is National Poetry Month. And if poetry isn't your thing, don't worry. A lot of people are with you on that. But if you want to give poetry a shot and it just seems too dense or hard to ...

Don’t worry if you will offend anyone. “Poetry literally saved my life,” said the spoken-word poet, who started writing poetry to help her handle the loss. Later, she began reading her work ...