People who don’t read poetry aloud are depriving themselves of an essential pleasure, says the poet Robert Pinsky. Consider the “tickle of gratification” that a young child feels upon hearing the ...

This compact treasury of poems features nursery rhymes, classics, and selections from 20th-century writers, with contributions from Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and ...

Robert Pinsky’s latest poetry anthology, “Essential Pleasures,” is a collection of “poems to be read aloud,” with selections dating from antiquity through the present day. I spoke to Pinsky while he ...

An Illustrated Treasury of Read-Aloud Classics for Young People: Ten-Minute Selections from the World's Best-Loved Books for Parent and Child to Share includes selections brief enough to cover before ...

The event celebrates the Lake Country Journals’ Poetry Contest, “Sweet Life” which garnered over 80 poems from throughout the ...

Springfield school librarian Angela Knight's weekly poem readings inspired a new book. The book, "40 Poems for 40 Weeks," features a poem for each week of the school year. David Harrison, the school's ...

A munificently talented and prolific generation of American poets is leaving us. In recent years, we’ve lost Adrienne Rich, Philip Levine, Maxine Kumin, Daniel Hoffman, Carolyn Kizer, Galway Kinnell, ...

After eating Arab cuisine and listening to musician Ronnie Malley play the oud on stage, Northwestern’s Middle Eastern and North African Student Association shared Arabic-based poems with each other ...

[ALTHOUGH the main theory — the ninth principle — expounded in this article has been tested on thousands of lines, I cannot guarantee that an occasional exception cannot be found. For the reader’s ...