Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. poems to read on a break The greatest casualty of our education system? Poetry. Either you’re from an older generation and you ...

This week’s poem, by James Brasfield, offers a dream-like meditation on a grandfather, memory, and an ever-shifting sense of ...

Poetry, perhaps more than any other genre, shows us how important it is to connect with a real human presence.

After that ritual nitrate-laden animal sacrifice, complete with smoke ascending, the poet’s father — to whose memory ...

This week’s poem, by Kerem Durdag, is a paean to roses, a mother who loved and listened to them, and the enduring love of a ...