In four new collections, a frank look at disability, a celebration of domestic life (and dogs), a gathering of hushed moments ...

April is National Poetry Month. Poets share advice on how to make a meaningful connection with the art form. One tip? Think ...

What do your columns suggest poems might be for? Poems are vehicles of meaning and feeling ... I mean, they didn’t think that students in English seminars in the 1950s were going to be analyzing ...

Poetry is a space to experiment with language — communications through this medium enables deeper emotional expression. This ...

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 ...

Amit Kalley, the founder of the organization For Working Parents, has issued an urgent warning to parents about the secret meanings of smartphone emojis that could be used by children to convey ...

In the summer of 1859, a year before his election to the U.S. presidency, Abraham Lincoln received a curious letter in the ...

The author and poet Michael Rosen introduces and reads some of his best-known poems for children: The space on the page The 'space' is a ‘friend’ to whom Michael Rosen can tell anything.

It also eased many LEGO fans into a whole new sub-genre of building techniques, and if you're one of those fans, you might want to check out a proper LEGO Technic set, which do away with the ...

A bloom of English rose. “Santa Claus” by Australian poet Andrew Barton “Banjo” Peterson (1864–1941) is a funny poem that imagines a humorous scene in which a watchman tries to stop a ...

What came out? Poetry. From "Fragments of Me" They are everywhere. The fragments of me. In the closet, in the drawer, in the ceiling looking down. The fragments of me are all over the land.