“I never got poetry,” someone says to me again. And I sigh. Because I never got it either — at least, not until I learned to stop worrying about “getting it.” In fact, “get” — with its connotation of ...

A former editor introduced me to the Poetry Foundation‘s Poem of the Day. His parents were poets—not amateurs who scribbled doggerel on birthday cards, but professionals who published books and taught ...

William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our ...

LET’S BEGIN by talking about meaning in poetry. It’s always the dragon at the gate whenever you approach the subject. Every poet, I suppose, tries to define for himself what poetry is all about. It’s ...

At first, Walter Grigo was stumped. His class assignment was to prepare a 10-minute presentation on a poem by colonial author Phillis Wheatley. Grigo, who at the time was taking graduate courses at ...

As they work, they talk, swap stories and often share a midday meal. By the end of the day they have created a stronger wall and deepened their friendship through cooperative effort.</p><p>Frost’s ...