To capture their experiences, Save the Children invited children from countries around the world to write short poems about COVID-19, life under lockdown, and how the pandemic has changed their lives.

For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ interactive technology to analyze a single poem at a time.

These are the opening lines to Rudyard Kipling’s “If,” a poem about believing and hope. And making the impossible into reality. It is cliche, but time stands still. The seagulls stop crying.

Poetry Moment Presented by Spokane Public Radio, Poetry Moment is a program that showcases myriad poems as read by poets and poetry lovers from across the Inland Northwest — and occasionally ...

This story was originally published on March 30, 2020, and has been updated. A great poem can be there for you — just like other works of art you hold dear. It can help you process sadness, anger or ...

It is a time when the flowers begin to bloom and kittens are born. Below are some of my favorite poems about spring and joy and the innocence and beauty of childhood. “Spring” by William Blake ...

Learn about rhythm in poetry and how it can be used as device which has an effect on the reader. How to understand open and closed form in poetry Closed form poetry uses stricts patterns of rhymes ...

April is National Poetry Month, a time to celebrate the literary genre that gives us answers to questions we don’t know how to ask, creates connection and wisdom, shows us the beauty and rhythm ...

But the biggest gift Mrs. Holleran gave me was a love of poetry. That meant I didn’t need to be force fed poetry in college, or turn up my nose at it as an adult. So, celebrating National ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...