He explores what tone and timbre can bring to poems when performing or reciting them. Being read to, and reading poetry, helps to articulate and encourage interpretation and response. Joe ...

With these relatively short poems, you'll understand why poets are peerless when it comes to putting our deepest emotions ...

If that’s you today, then give these beautiful and moving poems, selected by women including Judi Dench, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Elena Ferrante, a read. Judi Dench, Yoko Ono, Chimamanda ...

Her On Poetry columns appear four times a year. Jan. 16, 2025 Here is some of the greatest, most practical advice I’ve heard on how to start reading poetry: “A poem is best read in the light ...

Reading your own poems out loud to a room full of strangers might sound terrifying. Having done it a few times myself, I can confirm that it is. But with the number of poetry open mic nights in ...