He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a ...

Stephanie Pacheco, a student at Borough of Manhattan Community College, wrote “Dear CUNY” to celebrate the value New York’s ...

It’s no secret that social media is a deep, deep world of horror. With each video, post, comment and photo, you’re thrust into the mind — and world — of a totally random person. Of course ...

The author and poet Michael Rosen introduces and reads some of his best-known poems for children: The space on the page The 'space' is a ‘friend’ to whom Michael Rosen can tell anything.

April is National Poetry Month. Celebrated across the U.S. and Canada, the observance spreads appreciation and awareness for ...

Emily Dickinson explained what the feeling of writing poetry is like, “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were ...

This is a consolidation of nine essays which were published during 2021 in English and in Portuguese by several national journals and on my page at Academia.edu. Throughout, I have tried to use only ...

2 Kings 6:15-17: When the servant of the man of God got up early and went out, he discovered an army with horses and chariots surrounding the city. So he asked Elisha, “Oh, my master, what are we to ...