“Then word spread, and pretty soon I was writing so many of these love letters, in exchange for ‘tea money’. It was only much later that I realised they were my first attempts at poetry.
Indeed, I think that when we dare to embrace poetry’s capacity to make nothing happen, we might come to a richer conception of those things we love to treat as battened down—stuff like doctrine and ...
Nahal, 11, said "it was very chaotic", but described the experience as "really fun". Her classmate Arya, 11, added: "I love poetry and I like to write poetry because it makes my brain active." ...
I Am Maria: My Poems and Reflections on Heartbreak, Healing, and Hope' will hit bookshelves on April 1, 2025 Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...
Shortly after he was found, Julian's boyfriend Aaron Hayes, 18, requested a poem as part of an obituary and Julian's mum Beverley Griffiths, 59, immediately obliged. In just 25 minutes, Beverley ...