"Don't count your chickens before they hatch," "The early bird catches the worm" — these and other proverbs are poems ...

Get Reader’s Digest’s Read Up newsletter for more poetry, humor, cleaning, travel, tech and fun facts all week long. Each ...

On a long walk, I realized that my life is like a poem in another way ... It amazes me now to think about how simple my life is right now, and by simple I don’t mean easy; I mean pared down.

In four new collections, a frank look at disability, a celebration of domestic life (and dogs), a gathering of hushed moments ...

I was always a reluctant reader of poetry, but memorizing a poem every week gave me a new understanding of myself.

The Chorale, appearing on April 23 and 27 in the Katherine L. White Choral Festival at Vashon Center for the Arts, has ...

First there is the interesting vocabulary, phrases not available in everyday conversation, then simple but memorable ... For instance in a long car trip, when it wasn’t my turn to drive, I ...

ECSTASY: Poems, by Alex Dimitrov In his seminal “Letters to a Young Poet,” Rainer Maria Rilke encourages his long-distance apprentice ... not take ourselves, or life, too seriously.