In this week's column, author Lesléa Newman offers some advice for overcoming the anxiety that stems from struggling to start ...

But the pairing Blake most invites us to examine is the contrary states presented in his two Holy Thursday poems ... Nor poverty the mind appall. With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a ...

Free verse is poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular ... There are rhyming words at the end of lines one, two and five and lines three and four should also rhyme.

In doing so, he radically reinvented the idea of love, even as he pioneered two major experimental forms of poetry, the prose poem and free verse (vers libre). By the time he was nineteen ...

A new anthology highlights the charms and drawbacks of very brief verse. By Elisa Gabbert I remember where I was when I first read two short poems. One, Margaret Atwood’s “You Fit Into Me ...

Whether discovered as an online post or as part of a course, these poems reflect on both personal and social experiences, attempting to make sense of the world in verse. ‘self-portrait with a ...