Emily Dickinson explained what the feeling of writing poetry is like, “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were ...

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch," "The early bird catches the worm" — these and other proverbs are poems ...

Anyone who has tuned in to baseball on TV or radio has probably heard Vin Scully or Bob Costas refer to the shorthand used to keep track of the game. In a parallel world, anyone keeping score at ...

Share This poem, Bloom, is a masterful blend of vivid imagery, metaphor, and emotional depth, rooted in the poetic traditions that is at once tender and fierce. Here are some key literary devices that ...

How to draft poetry Discover how you can draft your own poetry using examples from Wilfred Owen’s ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’.

By RORY MOORE Tiger Media Network Forsyth Library, the Department of English and Modern Languages, and Hays Public Library hosted a How-To-Series lecture featuring FHSU Poet Laureate and author ...

Harper’s upbeat poem celebrates spring, the beauty of nature, and the joy of renewal. In contrast to many of her poems that address the social and political issues of her time, this one conveys a ...

Two professors in the Creative Writing Program turned to the seventh-century style of verse during the pandemic to tackle the ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...

Casagrande tackles the varied pronunciations of words that are considered accurate by linguists because, even if they sound ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?