I started writing poetry when I was eight years old and I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that doing so saved my life then and at many other times. Why did I start writing poetry? Frankly, I ...

Editor’s intro: Today, Bertha Rogers, teaching artist with Teachers & Writers Collaborative, shares how poetry can teach the world and make students feel at home in it. She also shares tips and ...

April is National Poetry Month, a time to honor poetry in all forms and poets from all backgrounds. In honor of the celebration, Princeton Professor of Poetry Lynn Melnick offered reflections on the ...

Make SFGATE a preferred source so your search results prioritize writing by actual people, not AI. Add Preferred Source Some people seem surprised by the idea that poets do any thinking at all. There ...

COLLECTED POEMS, 1943-2004 by Richard Wilbur Harcourt, 585 pp., $35 RICHARD WILBUR'S most-anthologized poem, "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World," begins: The eyes open to a cry of pulleys, 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 ...

In as much as we try to run away from the classical definition of poetry by William Wordsworth as the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings and emotions recollected in tranquillity,” we keep ...