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With poetry, you have to be creative. RFK Jr’s hatred towards autistic people seems to be the opposite of that.
"Don't count your chickens before they hatch," "The early bird catches the worm" — these and other proverbs are poems ...
Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a ...
He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...
Poetry is often seen as an indulgence and/or as something reserved for certain kinds of intellectuals and artists. It can be considered inaccessible for various reasons, not the least of which being ...
As an esteemed poet and a retired professor of philosophy at UW-Milwaukee, John Koethe kept those two worlds separate. “I ...
Using their analytical skills when interacting with stanzas for the first time helps students uncover deeper meaning in ...
We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: maybe because it came as an unexpected gift from a friend or loved one, or in ...
For Belgian slam poet Lisette Lombé, poetry as an art form mirrors the urgency of the feminist struggle. “In the poetic language, there is a fire, a kind of tension that's well suited to the ...
"That little act of kindness by this lovely stranger was more meaningful to me than I could ever articulate," Autumn Meadows ...
It might be relevant that the term of art for this kind of rhyme is masculine; this is a poem about male power and a woman’s ingenious, silent resistance to it. Inside the lines, a tight and ...
Stephanie Pacheco, a student at Borough of Manhattan Community College, wrote “Dear CUNY” to celebrate the value New York’s ...