Joe Coelho looks at how poetry can be performed, bringing the words to life rather than keeping them on the printed page, in ...

Human speech is rich with rhythm. As a person speaks, certain syllables are naturally emphasized, whereas others blend into the background. In this way, regular conversation becomes poetic. Language ...

This week’s guest on “Poetry from Daily Life” is Marilyn Singer, who divides her time between Brooklyn, New York and Washington, Connecticut. Marilyn has been a writer for fifty years and enjoys many ...

Local poet Donald Dunbar – who has some familiarity with the sound of poetry read aloud, as part of the If Not For Kidnap reading series – has an extremely helpful piece up on Sound, an online ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What is it about life’s big and little moments that calls for a poem? At weddings. At funerals. On greeting cards. In church. On ...

This compact treasury of poems features nursery rhymes, classics, and selections from 20th-century writers, with contributions from Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Reading alone is a deeply enjoyable activity. But being read to has its own irreplaceable allure. By Melissa Kirsch The Harvard Sentences are hundreds of sentences that have been used for many decades ...