It's been a difficult year for many people. NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks with poet Danez Smith about using poetry to understand and process complex emotions like grief. As the year comes to an end, we ...

Both poetry and successful psychotherapy can require us to access our deepest feelings. Thus, the task of “finding the right words in the right order” unites the clinician, the patient, and the poet, ...

LET’S BEGIN by talking about meaning in poetry. It’s always the dragon at the gate whenever you approach the subject. Every poet, I suppose, tries to define for himself what poetry is all about. It’s ...

"I have a confession to make: I don't really understand poetry." So goes the opening line of poet Matthew Zapruder's forthcoming book "Why Poetry," which looks at why a lot of people feel alienated by ...

Jacob Mayberry, a Baltimore spoken word artist, emcee, National Poetry Slam champion, Texas Grand Slam champion and teaching artist, Black Chakra, sat with the AFRO to celebrate poetry with us a bit ...

Literary critic Foster (How to Read Literature Like a Professor) explicates the fundamentals of reading and understanding poetry in this accessible guide designed for the lay audience. He addresses ...

Leah Hochhalter of Valley City High School is the 2025 North Dakota Poetry Out Loud state champion. Poetry Out Loud is a high school program that encourages students to learn about poetry while they ...

Extinction is inevitable. Expected. Almost all (99%) species that have ever existed have died out. Those disappearances have largely occurred at consistent background rates. But in the context of mass ...