Caring for loved ones with Alzheimer’s or dementia is often stressful and isolating. For caregivers in a Sacramento poetry ...

Steve Biondolillo, organizer of the National Baseball Poetry Festival, and Bill Littlefield, a former WBUR host who will read poetry at Polar Park in Worcester this weekend, say there's plenty ...

The poem’s individual words and syllables bob like a string of harbor buoys. Every line is propelled by the cadence of stressed and unstressed syllables. Our ears hear four heavy beats.

But should a major decline occur, he continued, “heed these lines” from Rudyard Kipling’s classic poem “If,” circa 1895. “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs ...

As an exercise, try reading a poem aloud a few different ways: Like you're savoring every word and every syllable Like you're explaining something really difficult to someone else It may help further ...

Thank you, I’ll take that -- did I pronounce your name correctly? Aha, stress on the second syllable. Okay. Step right ... If you enjoyed this article, we have a proposition for you: Join NRPLUS.