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

Sometimes a poem just strikes a precise moment. “Small Kindnesses,” by Danusha Laméris, feels utterly necessary for our time — a poem celebrating minor, automatic graciousness within a ...

Hiring our youth poetry ambassadors to guest-write my column is one such platform. This month, Halima Ibrahim offers encouragement to other writers by sharing how she finally found a language that ...

With the preponderance of poetry in the Pioneer Valley from college and university programs to publishers to small-town poetry readings and events, it seems many people must be feeling as if the ...

How does this relate to writing poetry? Well, jump rope rhymes are a good example of rhythm, meter, and beat. What’s more, small sections of poetry are measured in feet, and just watch those ...

Two books by respected poets have recently come to us from new and ”small” publishers. John Ciardi`s ”Selected Poems,” handsomely made, is from the new University of Arkansas Press ($17.95 ...