The phrase 'the positive power of poetry' repeats the same initial 'p' sound across a string of words. Doing this is a common feature of poetry, but what is it called? Listen to the programme to hear ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

In early 2023, the editors of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) decided not only to include poems in their highly respected professional publication, but also to publish ...

A strange, humorous, mysterious window out of trauma is both desolate and decorative An Explanation of Doily (for Adam Zagajewski) You asked me last summer: ‘What is a doily?’ Sometimes, at lunch, I ...

What I love about poetry is that you can perform it anywhere. There are performances spaces all around us. In the bedroom. In the playground. I ….was…. at…. the ...

A debut collection of poems offers moving meditations on the intricate role of identity and individuality in the journey ...