If someone approached you on the street and asked if they could film you reading poetry, would you say yes? Answer honestly. In fact, don’t bother answering. We already know the truth. Because when ...

People who don’t read poetry aloud are depriving themselves of an essential pleasure, says the poet Robert Pinsky. Consider the “tickle of gratification” that a young child feels upon hearing the ...

“Poems that are read aloud come to life,” said Robert Fagen, a contributor to the literary and arts journal Cirque. “There is a grand tradition, especially in Russia, of reading poetry aloud for an ...

B rookline, M ass.—For years before the pandemic, our father, the poet David Ferry, accepted invitations to read in public on any pretext: an academic conference, a bookstore benefit, indoors, ...

Editor’s Note: Go Ask Your Dad is parenting advice with a philosophical bent as one dad explores what we want out of life, for ourselves and our children, through useful paradigms and best practices.

Winners of the Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize gave a reading of selected poems at the Austin Building’s Stern Lounge on April 10. The Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize is an annual contest held for ...