A few minutes, a few lines, and poet for the people Jacqueline Suskin can offer her customers hope, confidence or a vision of who they are. And it has changed her life.

The poem is short, clocking in at just 149 characters in total, easily cut to under 140. It is iconic, quickly recognized if faintly remembered by anyone who took a high school English class. Its ...

George Oppen’s “From a Photograph” turns a wintry snapshot into a moving meditation on parenthood and the passage of time. Our critic A.O. Scott shows you what he loves about it.

The poems offered an anchor to me during unpredictable and painful times. In a calm interlude each day, I searched my anthologies and on sites such as Poetry Daily for the “right” poem to share.

Get Reader’s Digest’s Read Up newsletter for more poetry, holiday tips, fun facts, humor, cleaning, travel and tech all week long. RD.com, Getty Images. 1. “To My Friends” by Countee Cullen.

Christopher de Vinck recalls a poem written by his mother shortly after her death: "Her poem did not heal my ache the day she died. Death is not a physician, but the hands of our mothers who love ...

When my love for poetry took hold, poems about fathers were the first to enchant me. As a high school student, I reread Sylvia Plath's harrowing poem "Daddy," excited by her audacity.

This brings me to a story about an introspective 12-year-old girl from Massachusetts, Skylar Monahan, who writes her own stories. She is the daughter of my wife’s co-worker, Casey Monahan ...

I didn’t for one split second imagine, when editing a Daily Dot feature on the mysterious Internet persona Peterbd, that the man would soon enough be emailing me one of the cheeky, confounding ...