“Poetry is not a scary thing,” she says. “If it’s something that (Swift) reads and leans into, I’m hopeful that other people will take it as an opportunity to do the same and not be ...

One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — ...

Some poems deliberately don’t follow specific rules. Free verse has no rhyme or particular rhythm. Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day ...

Read the poem aloud again for a second time. What do they think the poem is about? How do they know? Underline words or phrases in the text that help them to work out the meaning of the poem.

What do you need to fly a kite ... The voice is where the energy of the poem comes from, and that’s the sense that someone is actually speaking, one with all of a real live person’s quirks ...