“I promise you, there’s a poem for everyone,” she says. Next, decide what you want to write about. Simple as it sounds, this can often be the hardest step for writers.

Atkins also recommends looking for a poem about a subject you're passionate about. “I promise you, there’s a poem for everyone,” she says. Next, decide what you want to write about.

This story was originally published on March 30, 2020, and has been updated. A great poem can be there for you — just like other works of art you hold dear. It can help you process sadness ...

Teacher notes. Ideas for the classroom. Before watching: Key Stage 1 (age 5-7): Read aloud Give and Take by Roger McGough. Key Stage 2 (age 7-11): Read aloud Dada’s stories, by Joseph Coelho ...

From Barbara Kingsolver’s timely forthcoming collection of poems, “How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons),” a potent how-to for awkward, complicated days.

But it’s a poem we recently recovered, which he wrote in 1957, that might offer us a way to navigate these tensions. Michael Oren: The many Holocausts Lemkin is better known today as an ...

Belfast poet Stephen Sexton: ‘A poem, like a song, is a way to decorate time’ Already shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, Belfast poet Stephen Sexton’s compilation Cheryl ...