Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

This is called learning a poem ‘off by heart’. It’s a great way to really show you understand the poem and have some fun sharing it with other people! It’s not always easy though.

This week my dear friend, Penny, sent me a powerful poem, read beautifully by an older ... So let them. Let them show you who they truly are, not tell you. Let them prove how worthy they are ...

It teaches trust and patience, since any poem has things to show us about the others ... “I remember how it began for me with ‘The Cantos.’ It was one word, dodici.” ...