F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...

April is National Poetry Month. In Washington, it is also marked by a shedding of coats and a gorgeous display of cherry blossoms, magnolias and dogwood trees — nature, in full bloom.

Meet your poem Rhythm and rhyme Made in N.Y.C. Greet the day Keep ... It’s a city poem, but one that incorporates some arresting nature imagery (the sun, the moon, the wan glow of dawn).

and includes an audio experience. Author of Alora: 'She dreamt poems in many tongues', Nthabiseng Jahrose Jafta, joins us in studio.

Trips with his family to the west of Ireland prompted poetry about nature, but Longley did not avoid writing about the conflict around him. Poems like The Ice Cream Man, Wounds, Kindertotenlieder ...

“Mess” and “chest” are a near-rhyme, which reassures us that we are in the realm of poetry. According to a new paper in Nature Scientific Reports, non-expert readers of poetry cannot ...

"I've felt the guilt and the shame of what humanity has done to nature." Her signature project as poet laureate, "You Are Here," focuses on how poetry can help connect people to the natural world.

What kind of love poems are you in the mood for? T hroughout literary history, love poems have connected lonely hearts, ...

When students encounter a virtuosic performance—especially a recitation—they can experience poems more immediately and in a way that resonates with their basic nature. In my second ... on the power of ...

Poetry is often constrained by rules, and these add to, rather than detract from, its creativity. Rhyming poems generally follow a scheme formed by giving each line a letter, so that lines with ...

From animals and family life to goofy people and more, these funny poems are guaranteed to make you laugh! The post 23 Funny ...