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 ...

Starting today, we’ll have a week of games, videos and essays to help you along the way. First up: readings by Ina Garten, ...

“Poetry is not a scary thing,” she says. “If it’s something that (Swift) reads and leans into, I’m hopeful that other people ...

Memorising a poem requires focus and practice, but there are things you can do that help. Remember the story the poem is telling. Focus on the rhythm of the poem. Look at the rhyming words used in ...

2. Don't worry about 'getting it' People often put pressure on themselves to crack a poem, unlock its meaning or figure out what the poet was trying to say. Don't do it, says Harryette Mullen ...

Tell all those who will listen and the rest: For the sake of the future, do what is best. A person who writes a poem is called a poet. Poets do lots of things to make their poems nice to read and ...

In the piece “what can a poem do?,” even professional poet Darius V. Daughtry seems to agree. Right away, he admits the difficult truth: No matter how much you enjoy it, a poem can’t save your life.