Editor’s intro: Today, Bertha Rogers, teaching artist with Teachers & Writers Collaborative, shares how poetry can teach the world and make students feel at home in it. She also shares tips and ...

April is National Poetry Month, a time to honor poetry in all forms and poets from all backgrounds. In honor of the celebration, Princeton Professor of Poetry Lynn Melnick offered reflections on the ...

A world without poetry would be a dire thing indeed. From Dylan Thomas’s famous villanelle Do not go gentle into that good night to Shakespeare’s famous love sonnet parody, Sonnet 130, the forms of ...

From inaugural poems to the songs we listen to, poetry is all around us. We just have to allow ourselves to see it. Poetry can and has had a tremendous impact on our society. Still to this day, I ...

During the pandemic lockdown, Yale’s Ayesha Ramachandran tried an experiment in poetry consumption. Ramachandran, an associate professor of comparative literature, bought stacks of books of ...

If you think poetry isn't for you, this might be the right time to give it a second chance. Every April in the United States, National Poetry Month invites you to experience and celebrate an art form ...

Our poetry reviewer, Tess Taylor, received a stack of books over the course of this year to help encourage reading poetry. She began reading skeptically, but grew to love two of them: Why Poetry by ...

Where are the boundaries between adjacent literary forms? When does prose become poetry, poetry become song, song become theater? These bounds are collapsing as contemporary artists experiment. Though ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

COMPRESSION is one pole of Japanese poetry; the other is richness of imagery and language. Because the imagery is traditional, the poet need only suggest in brief strokes. Because the poems are short, ...