A.O. Scott ponders the specific gravity and unlikely grace of Kay Ryan’s “Turtle.” And we have a game to help you memorize it ...

Limón’s anthology plants a strong stand of poems that help us breathe together with one another and all of creation. This review appears in the April 2025 issue. Jeffrey L. Johnson is pastor of Peace ...

a collection of nearly 200 ancient Egyptian burial spells meant to help the dead find their way into the afterlife. Short poems like this one may not be top of mind when considering funeral poetry ...

Monrovia city officials on Friday asked residents, local workers and students to submit original poems for the ...

Nixon wrote a poem as part of her poetry unit ... telephone booths as three-minute interactive experiences to help provide people support and mental health care resources within their area.

It had taken me all over the world, acting as a kind of therapist, listening to people’s problems and prescribing poems to help them with their anxieties. I had put an email address in the back ...

But as four new volumes of poetry suggest, this literary form might do more than help us pause the world. It’s possible that it can also help us recover some of the nuance and complexity lost to ...

Love poems often let Cupid’s arrow hit the mark at the right place. They not only help you express your feelings but also make the reader feel special and valued. Be it your boyfriend or husband ...

Reading, writing and sharing poetry can help people cope with loneliness or isolation and reduce feelings of anxiety and depression, a new study shows. Research by the University of Plymouth and ...

Those features — the imagery and the sound; what your mind’s eye sees and your physical ears hear — are what make “Recuerdo” a poem, and paying attention to how they work can help us ...