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

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?

Singer Gatha Aigaole mesmerized the crowd with her performance of ‘Majhya Bhimachya Navach Kunku Lavila Ramana’, while the ...

Jean Prokott—a decade-long Century High School English teacher, the city’s third Poet Laureate, a recent recipient of a $50K ...

God Bless the Child.” “I’ll Be Seeing You.” And of course, “Strange Fruit.” Ten writers and musicians share what they love ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

For years, my friend’s father asked me to recount his childhood escape from the Nazis. Why did it take me this long?

Elizabeth Luoma, who also works at SHU, gave her valedictorian speech at Shelton High in rhyme and looks to use other ...

When I think about what I want to leave behind, I know it’s not money (we don’t have any — raising kids is expensive!), and I ...

Navigate your way into this beautiful art form with this list of the most famous poems ever written. What jumps into your mind when you think of ... Like many funeral poems that give comfort ...

The truth is that however I choose to express myself will not live up to the weight of these facts: Vincent died, and then ...

Historically, poets have had less to say about pandemics than you ... funeral online provides, as cold comfort, the opportunity for elegy: These are the non-sequiturs of febrile, grieving thought ...