Success is failure turned inside out ... What better way to end our curated list of poems about life than with Marion Strobel ...

Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

In this week's column, author Lesléa Newman offers some advice for overcoming the anxiety that stems from struggling to start ...

David Roy chats to Dublin poet Siobhán Flynn, winner of this year’s Mairtín Crawford Award for Poetry at the Belfast Book ...

By Joshua Clover Selected by Anne Boyer Joshua Clover’s “My Life in the New Millennium” begins with a thorny, if familiar, either/or. Then the poem moves quickly to accrue its juxtapositions ...

Struggling to make sense of my changing life, I memorized the Polish ... book “Theory of the Lyric” that poetry’s “efficacy depends upon its success in making its words memorable, having ...

Where do poems come from? I’m asked that question a lot. Where do you get your ideas? Where do poems come from? After my school assembly programs, I like to allow time for students and teachers ...

Love poems are difficult to write and to read because they can be clichéd. This poem surrounds the topic of love versus sinking in it. In the title, love is “an enchantment,” not “my ...

In her 1840 “I Slept, and Dreamed that Life was Beauty,” she writes a six-line poem, in tetrameter couplets, about how work, a life of duty, can make real the highest of dreams, a life of beauty. Like ...

In my memoir "You Could Make This Place Beautiful," I wrote, “Life, like a poem, is a series of choices.” The choices we make in a poem — line length, tone, diction, point-of-view ...

uses the power of poetry to help clients heal from difficult life events and painful emotions while, at the same time, helping them use their imaginations to rediscover their sense of wonder ...

I’ll admit I came to “The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz ... another nice Jewish boy who spent the rest of his life trying to live up to his early success, who dedicated two songs ...