Today, we help you pay attention to the sound and feel of this week’s poem. Play our game to see how much you’ve already ...

You can take a poem with you anywhere, but knowing its origins can help make it yours. Practice by playing our poetry emoji ...

Author Joseph Bruchac shares a poem about a bumblebee and how taking the time to listen to the natural world led him to it.

The best part of any good political theory is that you don’t have to agree with all of it to see its strengths and learn something. Although Marx’s most controversial and well known ideas are about ...

Just see how you like it. I’m fascinated by trying to understand what people actually do with poems. Of course, we can write about them—that’s one thing we can do. But when we write about ...

Researchers looked at poetry dating as far back as the Tang dynasty to find that the Yangtze finless porpoise’s range has ...

On the table in my room, cigarettes, knife, notebook, 7 P.M. I sit down to write so my head don’t blow up. Perhaps you know ...

One of the things that one can do as a poet is to enter ... Then write not just about what you hear and see, but address it directly. Here, as an example, is a poem I recently wrote on one of ...

In the study, the team systematically dug through preserved poems dating back to the year 618 CE and found hundreds of ...

I’ve never seen his book of collected poems. Who are you to tell us that we can’t write poetry? When you don’t write poetry, that’s not a thing that you do ... that we see the world ...

Last year, for my birthday, my wife gave me a copy of “ I Remember ,” an unusual memoir by the artist Joe Brainard. It’s a tidy little book, less than two hundred pages long, made entirely from short, ...