Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition? Think again.

If you read the full poem, you will come to know what constitutes a true friend for him, and what makes friends so essential ...

See the most-read stories this hour » People who say they don’t need poetry, or don’t know poetry, or don’t like poetry, don’t realize that they probably can recite hundreds of poems ...

This is the KUOW Book Club, and we're reading "You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World" edited by 24th U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. I'm your guide, Katie Campbell. I asked y'all to try writing ...

Then, if you are lucky, its world will help you re-see your own. 15. Poetry depends on pattern and variation—even non-linear, non-narrative, anti-poetic poetry.

Robert Frost was like that, you can read a Frost poem once and get something wonderful from it. And then if you read it a few more times you may see more and more things going on under the surface.

The poem continues: “I didn’t want to go to Chicago with you./I wanted to marry you. I wanted/your wife to suffer./I wanted her life to be like a play/in which all the parts are sad parts.” ...

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Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right now. It’s called “Party Politics,” but it’s not about those parties, or those politics.