Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form ...

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Most assignments in college are not relevant,” he told me. “They’re hackable by AI, and I just had no interest in doing them.

Even an extreme case, such as Cage’s famous 4’33”—a work in which performers refrain from playing their instrument for four minutes and 33 seconds—depends on its score, a simple and ...

In my memoir "You Could Make This Place Beautiful," I wrote, “Life, like a poem, is a series of choices ... It amazes me now to think about how simple my life is right now, and by simple ...

"It looks simple - and it is, but that's why it's brilliant," they said. Of course, McGough, who rose to poetry prominence in the late 1960s, is still going strong at 87. Dead Poets continued ...

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 ...

Auden’s definition of poetry as “memorable speech ... “saved some part / Of a day I had rued.” The language is simple and specific, the rhythms coördinated for maximum effect.

For instance, I’d encourage all Cornell students to read “Ithaka” by Constantine Cavafy, a simple poem that I find very moving because of my own experience here. People also can discover ...