Janice N. Harrington worked as a nursing home aide in college, and she drew on that experience to write “The Hands of Strangers: Poems from the Nursing Home.” This book-length collection of poems ...

POETRY:WITH PLAIN-SPOKEN, scrupulous exactitude Patrick Deeley attends on "grounded things". Kin to Kavanagh and Heaney, he's a cartographer of his own known, loved space, his poems gleaming with ...

For me, December usually marks a special celebration: It’s the month when I work with my students at Centre Crest nursing home to edit, prepare and perform the poems we’ve been writing all fall. We ...

Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form with this list of the most famous poems ever written. What jumps into your ...

Thousands of years ago, humankind figured out how to transform one of our greatest inventions into infinite beauty, and language gave way to poetry. From the prehistoric poems of the Nile ...

Vijay Nambisan died last year, but rises like a phoenix every time his words light up our world, setting fire to anything profane. I didn’t know Vijay and I regret not getting a chance to meet him.