Writing poetry can help a person come to grips with—or understand—what is in their mind. Writing and reading poetry is an ...

Millennials are up against a few obstacles in terms of reading poetry. First, many of us learned poetry almost exclusively from classic examples. Additionally, we're often taught with the "tie the ...

Poetry is the distillation of thought expressed in a form designed to cut through the clutter of ordinary expressions and deliver a thought, a message, or an emotion that resonates with truth. And ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian American writer Ilya Kaminsky’s poem “We Lived Happily During the War” went viral across social media. Poetry can often help people make sense ...

Poetry can literally give you chills. A Free Press intern explains why — and how to start reading it without fear.

WE make our world by what we choose to see. I wrote that line years ago, and have copied it from notebook to notebook, waiting for the rest of the poem to arrive. But lately I’ve begun wondering if ...

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 ...

I began writing this on Mother’s Day, as my heart seemed buried by the weight of my son’s recent diagnosis of an incurable, debilitating disease –– an inherited illness that remained silent for ...

Disaster recovery usually provides the necessities of food and water, but a group of St. Tammany artists wants to meet another critical need as well — poetry. To do that, Slidell poet Dennis Formento ...