Joe Coelho looks at how poetry can be performed, bringing the words to life rather than keeping them on the printed page, in ...

Jerome Rothenberg changed the course of poetics with the opening statement to his landmark "Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries From Africa, America, Asia, Europe & Oceania": "Primitive ...

It's been a difficult year for many people. NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks with poet Danez Smith about using poetry to understand and process complex emotions like grief. As the year comes to an end, we ...

Both poetry and successful psychotherapy can require us to access our deepest feelings. Thus, the task of “finding the right words in the right order” unites the clinician, the patient, and the poet, ...

"I have a confession to make: I don't really understand poetry." So goes the opening line of poet Matthew Zapruder's forthcoming book "Why Poetry," which looks at why a lot of people feel alienated by ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Most of us have friends who love to read and are intelligent, sensitive readers but simply "don't get" poetry. It may be that they want the poem to have the kind of clear meaning ...