Poetry from Daily Life: However you feel about poems, learning to observe is a good habit
Even if you never pick up a pen, observing your surroundings like a poet is a good habit to develop, author Lola Haskins ...
The Copenhagen Post4d
Copenhagen revisited through memoir poetry
I’ma Dane writing this piece, make no mistake.Danish IS difficult to learn. Learning Danish through fiction is not just ...
Psychology Today5d
Finding Hope in Troubled Times
In the midst of turbulent times, it can be hard not to fixate on the troubles of the present moment. Here's how hope can ...
I researched poetry written during COVID – five years on, here’s how people say it helped them
The American scholar of 20th-century literature and culture Elizabeth Outka has argued that works such as The Second Coming ...
The Daily Californian9d
Babel’s rhapsody (for Little Man)
You must share the message with everyone — let them know your suffering. Tell them how dear and marvelous our freedom truly ...
NewsDay Zimbabwe11d
Mabela, Majuru, Ganyani emerge victorious in SHE Speaks Poetry competition
THREE feminist poets Rachel Mabela, Ropafadzo Charleen Majuru and Adelaide Ganyani have emerged the judges’ favourites in the ...
15 Great Poetry Books, Recommended by Poets
From classics to modern masterpieces, these great poetry books—recommended by poets themselves—belong on your bookshelf The greatest poetry books ever written I remember the first time I picked up ...
American Songwriter14d
5 Folk and Rock Songs Inspired by the Works of 19th and 20th Century Poets
Some songwriters started writing poetry before segueing into song. Others will even say that most of their songs started as a ...
Poetry from Daily Life: Word by word, line by line, collecting, stacking, making a rhyme
Indiana author Rebecca Kai Dotlich writes about how a childhood spent collecting lyrics and words sparked her love of poetry.
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‘I’ll Have It Here’: Jeet Thayil blends the instinctive and incomprehensible in his new poems
Poetry makes taking control of the language of your life. Good poems can interdict a suicide, rescue a love affair, and build a revolution in which speaking and listening to somebody becomes the ...
The New York Times21d
The Morning Ritual That Helps Me Resist the Algorithm
poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone. On a good morning, I reach for some paper and a pen ...