Most students treat poetry like a highly academic art form meant for scholars. Most people feel the same way about visual art ...

It’s a kind of academic rite of passage to get confused about scanning a line of poetry. It can feel maddening to figure out what...

Over the years, I’ve grown to love reading certain poems out loud, so here’s a list of my favorites ...

It’s a good time to read and listen to poetry. It’s a very good time to write poetry.

Reading literature out loud to my students is one of my favorite things about teaching. It reminds me of when I was a child, and my mother w

Immersion, however you define it, is the main objective of all art, and all living.