Poems can evoke laughter, tears, and thoughtful reflection. Recent research has shown their therapeutic effects: how they can reduce stress, relieve grief, and increase well-being.

Emily Dickinson’s poetry offers comfort when words fail. Her quiet brilliance gives voice to emotion, making her the perfect ...

I mean, there’s a great resistance to reading poetry ... And some of his poems are long. But even with the short ones, he writes at a level of abstraction, and the metaphors are so intricate ...

A well-written poem speaks ... illness. 5 Reading and/or writing poetry has been shown to increase working memory associated with greater recall and shows a positive effect on short-term and ...

American Kielce Gussie, who works as a journalist at Vatican News, did the first reading ... As the funeral of Pope Francis began, a choir was heard singing an antiphon in Latin, a short verse ...

These poems, told in Klecko”s signature outsider-observing mode, range in topic from kids playing video games on the D-Line subway, his experience reading ... three and four short sections ...

American Kielce Gussie, who works as a journalist at Vatican News, did the first reading ... As the funeral of Pope Francis began, a choir was heard singing an antiphon in Latin, a short verse ...

"I picked my favorite one, and with my whole chest, started yelling a chant about the outfielders being incompetent and ...