Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Timothy Rasinski ... Poetry is usually short, and the rhythm and rhyme ...

Nursery rhymes teach children all manner of things using the language of poetry, writes Australian author and researcher ...

Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks ... It’s one of those classic short poems about life that can change the ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Rebecca Kai Dotlich, who lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. Rebecca began to find the fun and magic in words as a child and her ally was her dad ...

The fast rhythm and rhyme give the narrative poem its energy ... So that's the way that we speak in everyday life with our friends and family. Free verse and narrative poems can sometimes seem ...

I pasted poems and song lyrics into my diary ... What beautiful things to have woven through a life. Rebecca Dotlich's books have received a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, an AAAS/Subaru SB ...