The three stanzas track the arrival of morning. We see the first light: It’s a modern poem with ancient roots ... The stakes aren’t always life and death, but the rising sun often casts ...

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 ...

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 ...

Life Isn’t Perfect. But This Poem Might Be. “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. ... Over the course of three stanzas, ...