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

This week, let’s all learn one together! Meet your poem Rhythm and rhyme Made in N.Y.C. Greet the day Keep your poem By A.O. Scott and Aliza Aufrichtig If you’re joining us in memorizing Edna ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...

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

The holiday season is a time for reflection, connection, and healing, encouraging appreciation of life's small joys. The holiday season is here, so here’s a festive poem to remind us that cancer ...

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 ...

I felt more able to settle into my other work, which is writing, and particularly writing poems. In an often-furious world, I come to gardens and poems because in dense quick space, they reroute ...

Editor’s Note: Tess Taylor is the author of five collections of poetry, including “Work & Days” and “Rift Zone.” She is the editor of the anthology “Leaning Toward Light: Poems for ...