University of Westminster provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. For many, this year’s Valentine’s Day will be like no other. If you are spending the day apart from your loved ones, and ...

A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul. This week, let’s all learn one together! Meet your poem Rhythm and rhyme Made in N.Y.C. Greet the day Keep your poem By A.O. Scott and Aliza ...

April is Poetry Month, a painful reminder for some, who suffered under English teachers who made them write about the cherry tree wearing white for Eastertide or “The Love Song of J. Alfred Pruneface” ...

The text accompanying a new Atlantic video, animated by Jackie Lay, challenged the prevailing interpretation of Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” as an ode to individualism. Like “The Road Not Taken ...

A brisk little essay by Jim Holt in the New York TImes tells of the ease with which verse can be burned into one’s cortex: [T]he key to memorizing a poem painlessly is to do it incrementally, in tiny ...

A short poem posted by The Nation now has an apology longer than the poem posted above it. And one top publishing insider summed up: “If you wrote this all up as a satirical novel, no one would ...

In the novelist Barbara Kingsolver’s timely forthcoming collection of poems, “How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons),” one section of potent how-tos help guide readers through awkward, complicated ...

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The famous words "'Twas the night before Christmas" shaped the holiday by popularizing stockings, reindeer, and even Santa Claus. But the classic poem also sparked a centuries-long controversy. Now, ...

Considering February is the month of love, what better time could there be to write a love letter or poem to a beloved? To be loved and nurtured is a universal need. Being loved creates feelings of ...