Today is National Scrabble Day, so David Bukszpan, author of Is That a Word?, shares a poem that will help you remember all 101 two-letter words that you can use. The most important lesson for ...

As The Poke points out, a poem written in 1920 perfectly encapsulates the baffling nature of English. In fact, it's so tricky that even native English speakers with college degrees may struggle to get ...

'Respect the Mic' celebrates 20 years of a high school's spoken word poetry Poets Hanif Abdurraqib, Franny Choi, Dan "Sully" Sullivan, and club founder Peter Kahn have curated a new anthology ...

“The Hollow Men” and a dozen other poems committed themselves effortlessly to my memory, where they have been lodged ever since.

Once, when Ben Bernthal was selling street poetry — he takes three words from a stranger, and turns them into a poem on the spot — a man came up and told him to write a poem about “why it matters.” ...

The words I want to read. Rick Lupert, a poet, songleader and graphic designer, is the author of 27 books including “God Wrestler: A Poem for Every Torah Portion.” ...

The poem depicts not scenes of violence and gore but the hollow wordlessness many of us feel in the face of war or suffering—then it uses images of silence, blankness, and absence to fight ...