Poetry doesn’t just reflect life—it makes life an object of art. Whatever state or mood you’re in, poems about life are there to guide you, to ease you and to help you find meaning and make ...

Maria Popova This is the world we live in ... Can you really have one without the other? Poetry and Science? Consider the poem "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer: I think that I shall never see A poem ...

The world is too big to be thinking about you. You must not expect anything from it, dear. You thought this was a lie; it ...

Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” ...

Then we prescribe a poem." Alma also wants poetry to be accessible ... "People said, ‘you know why there is no other Poetry Pharmacy in the world? Because no one wants it,'" Alma recalled.

A researcher — who was looking for something else — stumbled onto two poems by Virginia Woolf. The silly, punny, quickly ...

So why do we read and write poems? For the writer, a poem is a way of expressing themselves. Often, people choose to write about subjects that they are passionate about or experiences they have had.

While Owen wrote powerful poetry, he was just one of 2,225 men and women from Britain and Ireland who had poems published during World War One. Owen wrote his anti-jingoistic poem as part of his ...

Poetry at the Mansion series for 2025 will include events that explore satire, love and lust, holidays and much more ...