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In an age dominated by fleeting content, poetry emerges as a quiet force with profound cognitive benefits. Recent research ...

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Netflix’s The Sandman season 2 finale, released on July 24, 2025, ends with a post-credit scene featuring a brief poem.

Middle of the Air celebrates poetry beyond the page, uniting poem and song in new ways while drawing on the rich history ...

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These poems take their sincerity as a given: they are rapturous, melancholic, dismayed or angry just as they declare ...

A poem by Chicago's Jeff Wallenfeldt reinforces how Hamilton's voice doesn’t just describe baseball games — it creates ...

Linda Ankrah-Dove, 83, published three poetry books in April, exploring life and her views on human perspectives. She started ...