6 poetry collections to spark a new love affair with reading this World Poetry Day
Poetry should be celebrated every day of the year, but this World Poetry Day, we'd like to take a moment to introduce you to ...
Life Isn’t Perfect. But This Poem Might Be.
Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...
A Springfield school librarian reads kids a poem a week. It inspired a book.
Angela Knight, library media specialist at Harrison Elementary, wrote the forward for the new book. She was also awarded SPS ...
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16,000 poems and counting: Zip Odes judge sees South Florida through everybody else's eyes
Author and poet Sarah Trudgeon lives in Great Barrington, Mass., but she stays connected to South Florida through poetry: for ...
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How can Israelis and Palestinians make peace? Reading each other’s poetry is a good start
I invite any Jewish or Israeli poet who has not delved into contemporary Palestinian poetry to step behind enemy lines to read these and other poets. Reading them means experiencing not only the ...
Book Review: Patrycja Humienik’s powerful debut poetry collection is a conundrum worth mulling over
Sometimes reading poetry can feel exhilarating, like you are finally seeing and being seen. Other times it’s a slog that ...
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Can reading poems make you a better leader?
Good news for humans 😍. Read on to learn why poetry might make you feel better in a fairly dark world. I’m fascinated by the potential for poetry (yes, poetry) to play a bigger part in our ...