The greatest casualty of our education system? Poetry. Either you’re from an older generation and you know a few lines by ...

Last month I wrote about memorizing poetry, and ever since then poems have been popping into my head. The alarming thing is, often I hear them in the voice of the cartoon character Bullwinkle. You ...

"A Letter Home," a poem written years ago by North Dakota's late poet laureate James W. Foley, still rings a bell for many people. A Neighbors reader wondered who wrote the poem. A mention of that ...

Over the river, and through the wood, To grandfather’s house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh Through the white and drifted snow. Over the river, and through the wood— Oh, how the ...

For me, Donald Hall's poems are old friends. I've known and read him for nearly 30 years. My favorite poems remain those of the "Kicking the Leaves" period, the mid- to late-1970s, when the elegist ...

A study in the journal Scientific Reports suggests readers like AI-generated poems more than those written by poets like Sylvia Plath and T.S. Eliot. Nonexpert readers of poems from William ...

This week’s poem, by Janie Gendron, embodies the act of hope through notes written on paper, stones ascended, green pastures ...

Poetry, perhaps more than any other genre, shows us how important it is to connect with a real human presence.

Birthdays are fantastic occasions, but who says you can’t celebrate friendship any day? Whether it’s with a warm friendship quote or a thoughtful gift (like a book about friendship), there are so many ...