One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — the Mona Lisa is the story of a woman’s smile; the ceiling of the Sistine ...

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

Children's poet Constance Levy, a former educator who lives in St. Louis, encourages readers of all ages to tell their own ...

Feeling like the odd one out is something Lakewood High School junior Mel Diemert has dealt with her entire life.

And I am happy that this space is equally shared by my husband and eight-year-old,” she says. Nithya’s poems are recollections of her own family’s history entangled with food, and she places ...

Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...

The title should give you some ideas of the poem’s subject, tone, or genre. Write down your initial expectations and impressions based on the title, then make changes as you come back to the ...

In the past, troops who went through SERE were forced to repeatedly listen to a reading of the 1903 poem ... Caroll told Task & Purpose. “It really starts to screw with your head.” ...