Art can help us make sense of the world, and these moving poems about life offer a better understanding of the ups and downs ...

Elsewhere, she quotes poems and poem excerpts from Shakespeare ... were it possible to live without it. And by changing selves, one by one, art changes also the outer world that selves create ...

Nothing much happens in Stephen Sandy’s poem “The Change,” aside from a walk through the snow and a conversation about house shutters. But he paints the precise moment in March when winter ...

she's taking words to the next level and changing lives. There is something to be said with a person who has a way with words, particularly poetry. Poetry has ways of touching the soul that make ...

Gorman’s poetry touches on issues of the day including civil rights, social justice, climate change, feminism, and unity. Her poem “The Hill We Climb” was recited at President Joe Biden’s ...

But as today’s Poem of the Day suggests, Quarles possessed a few modest beauties of his own. “On Change of Weather” makes an interesting bracket with Tuesday’s poem by the twentieth-century poet ...

so raw — that it finally forces us to grow," the poem reads. "⁣A year that screams so loud, finally awakening us from our ignorant slumber.⁣ A year we finally accept the need for change ...

At the Biden/Harris inauguration on Wednesday, poet Amanda Gorman, dressed in the yellow of the Sun, realigned the planets with her recitation of a poem called The Hill We Climb. In 2018 for The ...