Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Translated from Farsi, the most widely spoken Persian language, the poems ...

Basking Shark To stub an oar on a rock where none should be, To have it rise with a slounge out of the sea Is a thing that happened once (too often) to me. But not too often – though enough. I count ...

If you’ve ridden the Toronto subway lately, you may have stumbled upon an unexpected bit of poetry in the ad space on the car. Maybe it was a haiku by Martin Gomes about the eternal nature of the seed ...

What do G.K. Chesterton, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti and Joyce Kilmer have in common with Mother Goose? Plenty, poetically. They also all are highlighted in Poems Every Child ...

If you're anything like me, poetry collections intimidate you more than any other type of book. I'm not sure where this poetry fear starts for many of us. Perhaps from school, where we're expected to ...

Reading is writing, writing is reading and it's a good idea not to judge yourself with what you read. Especially poetry for young people. These are things that have helped me throughout the years. I ...

Dear Abby: When I was growing up, my parents had a framed poem from your column hanging on our kitchen wall. None of us kids could miss it because it was right next to the telephone. Before we moved ...

Friday (March 21) marks World Poetry Day - an occasion celebrated since 1999 after UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) highlighted it's aim to "preserve ...

This week’s guest on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Matt Mason, who lives in Omaha, Nebraska. Matt, who was the Nebraska State Poet from 2019-2024, started writing in high school and not long after ...