O n that day when the soul dresses in white and the heart beats stronger, every word spoken takes on an eternal meaning.

But today we’re talking about how poetry can also help us express our ... A few nights later, we watched short films made by other residents. There were no seats left, so we stood in the back.

The team noticed that an area of the brain involved in pleasure called the nucleus accumbens behaved uniquely in response to poetry, showing that listeners can feel the most aesthetic pleasure while ...

Worried poetry might put Grandma to sleep too early? We’ve got you covered with both short poems and excerpts, as well as underappreciated works. Read on for the best Christmas poems of the year ...

Sweetness recurs in Gay’s collection, in the form of abundant fruit—figs, pears, berries—and in the dominant emotion of these poems: joy. Here, even death is transformed into the syrupy ...