Poetry in the Natural World" edited by 24th U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. I'm your guide, Katie Campbell. I asked y'all to try writing a poem of your own — you delivered.

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch," "The early bird catches the worm" — these and other proverbs are poems ...

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

What’s your favorite Langston Hughes poem? Maybe it’s one you grew up with. Maybe it’s one you stumbled across in a moment of ...

Armitage and His Majesty’s Prisons and Probation Service (HMPPS) have teamed up as part of a recruitment drive. He is Poet Laureate now but Yorkshire’s Simon Armitage was once a probation officer. And ...

Poetry is often seen as an indulgence and/or as something reserved for certain kinds of intellectuals and artists. It can be considered inaccessible for various reasons, not the least of which being ...

“Poetry is the art of compression, of saying in a few well-chosen words, enhanced with rhythm and musicality of language what might take many more words to express — far less memorably — in prose,” ...

The poem serves as a reminder that life is short and that rather than sitting alone thinking about the past, we should embody the childlike cheer and innocence of the holiday, be kind to whomever ...

Without demanding much time, energy or money, these short rules and timeless truths have made my life happier, successful and uncomplicated: Brief and sharp, these little tips distill big ideas ...

Image Dimitrov — who leans toward single stanzas broken into short lines and succinct ... and not take ourselves, or life, too seriously. As in “Love and Other Poems,” his previous ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?