“I promise you, there’s a poem for everyone,” she says. Next, decide what you want to write about. Simple as it sounds, this can often be the hardest step for writers. What do you want to sa ...

Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a home poem.

Naomi: You might not have thought about it before, but there are people whose job is to write poems for cards. Naomi: They use their creativity to dream up all the words that the rest of us want ...

A person who writes a poem is called a poet. Poets do lots of things to make their poems nice to read and hear. They find ways to make sure the poem sticks in our mind. Words that rhyme have the ...

One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — ...

Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Poems aren’t pictures, but sometimes they try to make us see, and to make us feel in ways we might associate with acts of seeing. Some poems evoke the drama of ...

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.