Scissors open and close like “angry alligators” and corn chips are as “salty as the sea” in Janet Bellavance’s second-grade classroom. The 30-year teaching veteran is a big believer in encouraging her ...

Source: https://pixabay.com/en/poetry-poetry-album-old-saying-798018/ "Musicians must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he's to be ultimately at ...

When David Harrison originally asked me to write my first column for “Poetry from Daily Life,” I spoke of Harry Bliss’ New Yorker cartoon: he draws a lady introducing her son as a poet. The folks ...

For years, I've devoted 10-30 minutes to journaling every morning. But in 2022, I wanted to elevate my morning routine to an art form. I wanted to have a complete draft of a piece so that I could ...

CHRISTIAN WIMAN is a poet and editor of Poetry magazine in Chicago. His most recent book of poems, Every Riven Thing, was published last fall by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Some existential glitch in ...

When I first heard a poet would read at Obama’s inauguration, I was driving through Oakland, Calif., kid in the back seat, on my way to a cafe with Wi-Fi and a jungle gym. I had a poem to e-mail to a ...

Ten years ago this fall, an executive who had managed the Jell-O account at General Foods published a collection of essays about American poetry. Its contents included a debunking of Robert Bly, a ...

There are lots of different types of poetry, but they often contain similar ingredients. The main ingredient in a poem is words. Poems can be about anything: they can tell a story or they can be a ...