For many, poetry is a form of self-expression, and pen and paper are a chance for escape and daydreams and everything in ...

So many of her poems are about things that kids pay a lot of attention to, like bees and insects and snakes and death,” Pierce Bonifaz said. “So it was really easy for the students to have a ...

Why are so many poems in today’s magazines about sorrow and misery or freakish, even disturbing language or images? Where are the lust-for-life poems, the poems that crave adventure and new ...

It’s possible to study more “conventional” and “archaic” kinds of poetry at Kenyon. I mean, I took a class on Chaucer my sophomore year, where I voraciously read rhyming epics about talking birds. I ...

Whispers of Home was written at a time when the idea of home had begun to fracture. Borders hardened, language turned defensive, and public compassion grew thin. The poem arose from that atmosphere ...

Jordan believed poetry had the power to teach and educate, and she did not shy away from difficult word choices to appease ...

Matthew McConaughey has always had a Texas-twang way with words - most famously with his signature "Dazed and Confused" line, "alright, alright, alright." Now the actor has turned his words a poetry ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. One of the highlights of my first three years as a literature professor at MIT—and indeed, of my 15-year career as an educator—has been the recent discovery that ...

Having nothing to read, Vlasic composed haiku. Anthony Q. Rabang took to the stage on a rainy night in Vigan City, Philippines. Turning off a microphone during a lecture break near Bad Nauheim, ...

For 23 years, A.O. Scott was a film critic for the New York Times. For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ ...

“The enormous power of reticence,” Octavio Paz wrote in 1977, “is the great lesson of the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop.” Many critics have echoed his praise since her death in 1979. “Bishop wrote ...