Today, we help you pay attention to the sound and feel of this week’s poem. Play our game to see how much you’ve already ...

Author Joseph Bruchac shares a poem about a bumblebee and how taking the time to listen to the natural world led him to it.

Then write not just about what you hear and see, but address it directly. Here, as an example, is a poem I recently wrote on one of the last warm days of autumn. I heard a buzzing sound from the ...

So why is it that people who “can’t write poetry” really do stop right there and never write poems? The fear of failure is so huge for poetry. Before we start, we’re thinking about Emily ...

A Wicklow native has been announced as the overall winner of the 2025 All Ireland Scholarships Creative Writing Competition.

As an autistic English professor who studies literature and neurodiversity , I was especially unnerved by Kennedy's contention that many autistic people will never write poetry. It couldn't be ...

More recent readers have agreed. Of course, there are countless autistic people who write poetry who aren’t famous and haven’t published books. Neurodivergent poet and educator Chris Martin ...