Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If I ever write a memoir, I'd like to title it "Everything I Know About Life I Learned in a Poem." Of course, the marketing team ...

Poetry can literally give you chills. A Free Press intern explains why — and how to start reading it without fear.

My guest this week on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Alan Katz, who lives in Milford, Connecticut. Alan says, “I’ve been writing since Miss Gordon showed me the alphabet in kindergarten. But I’ve been a ...

The Academy of American Poets launched National Poetry Month in April 1996 to celebrate the role of poets and poetry in American culture. Since then, it's become one of the largest literary ...

And if we die soon, remember us. Remember our voices, love, and faces. Don’t regret anything. Don’t make a fuss. Visit the homes we loved and all the places. Your grief will surely be deep, very deep, ...

If you enjoy poetry or simply love words, you can creatively channel that same energy for manifestation with an acrostic poem ...

At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for when you ...

How did you arrive at ‘walking’ as the unifying idea behind the collection? Shikhandin: The idea arrived first. The poems were collected under the unifying umbrella of ‘walking’ and its many facets ...

If you're having writer's block, some young poets in Morningside K-8 Academy might help get the gears moving. They recently learned how to write their own masterpieces about the uniqueness of living ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Irene Latham, who lives on a lake in rural Alabama. Irene has loved poetry since childhood when her father introduced her to poems by Shel Silverstein.