Haazinu is a poem with definite stanzas. It is one of the few places ... order and cadence in life that influences us in myriad ways. Though poetry can be freestyle, non-rhyming and sometimes ...

When you move your feet and hands, the first to go cold, you remember what it is to feel life in them. You are grateful for every little bit of pulsing blood. In the last stanza the poem's main ...

“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its craft — and its wildness. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Poems ...

In the 19th century, poetry played a much more prominent role in American public life. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a celebrity, his poems widely known. Even Walt Whitman, a far more adventurous ...

Ian McMillan introduces a new series for The Verb in which the Tom Paulin explores the Secret Life of the Poem. Over the next four weeks he will be looking behind the stanzas of seemingly familiar ...