Poetry and translation are both about picking the just-right word. But reading multiple translations makes an implicit case for celebrating abundance and variety.

As The Poke points out, a poem written in 1920 perfectly encapsulates the baffling nature of English. In fact, it's so tricky that even native English speakers with college degrees may struggle to get ...

In the poem, Kumin captures a familiar quiet wonder and the feeling of being close to, but not quite a part of, nature as she describes interacting with wildlife around her New Hampshire home.

It’s all word for word. The process of adaptation was taking the poem from its single voice, that single perspective, and breaking that down into dramatic characters.

Or take “the moon looked into my window,” today’s Poem of the Day in The New York Sun, in honor of Cummings’s October 14 birthday. He collected it in his 1926 volume, “is 5,” the second of poems in ...

My challenge to all who join me in the monthly exercise is to write a poem inspired by that one word. There are no rules to this game, which I call Word of the Month Poetry Challenge.

Ben Bernthal’s set-up for street poetry, featuring his typewriter, an ironing board displaying mystery poems, and a flag with the word “poems” sewn onto it. Photo by Io Yeh Gilman. As they talk before ...

At 9:22 a.m. on March 23, I shared the poem, “Jabberwocky,” with my WhatsApp group. My son’s heart stopped beating 3½ hours later, as I held his hand and sang to him.

Plus the winning funny poems using spelling bee words (correctly this time). In this week's contest, misuse a word in a short, funny poem. Accessibility statement Skip to main content ...

With just a word or a phrase, a poem can reach the hidden places that prayers or well-meaning advice cannot. The poems offered an anchor to me during unpredictable and painful times. Family ...