As these moving short poems prove, you can work poetry into your daily life. ... 30 Short Poems That’ll Help You Read More Poetry This Year. RD.com, Getty Images. By Lauren Schenkman.

Short poems take center stage in former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins' new collection, Musical Tables. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with the poet about his work and finding beauty in a couple of lines.

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Without our dreams, Hughes says in this short yet powerful poem, our lives lose meaning and we are like birds that cannot fly. 7. “Happy Thought” by Robert Louis Stevenson ...

The poems you read while young bear a burden they can’t be aware of: They have to represent the genre, they must show what poems are for. Short poems are especially good for this, because young ...

On Sunday, the festival will present eight poets: Jack Crimmins, Lisa Shulman, Dave Holt, Melissa Eleftherion, readings from ...

A.O. Scott ponders the specific gravity and unlikely grace of Kay Ryan’s “Turtle.” And we have a game to help you memorize it ...

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Many adults admit to not getting poetry. Given all that we face as adults, I don’t get it. One answer, I suspect, has to do ...

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Reading and/or writing poetry has been shown to increase working memory associated with greater recall and shows a positive effect on short-term and long-term mood changes. 6 Poetry connects us to ...

I kept reading poetry, but for the last, I don’t know, 25 or 30 years, I’ve been very much a casual reader of poetry—not someone professionally invested in it, not someone who specializes in it.