At the most extreme, some forms of constrained writing are even more self-limiting and end up being very, very constrained ...

Hemphill, a Black, gay poet and activist who died from AIDS-related complications in 1995, was a unparalleled voice for queer ...

Acclaimed poet, storyteller, and social campaigner Alhanislam explores why it’s not diseases that are neglected — it’s people.

So Liu and colleagues searched databases of ancient Chinese poems for references to the porpoise, sometimes called the “river pig” or other nicknames. After ruling out references based on ...

For example, scientists reconstructed the former composition of fauna in Greece with the aid of descriptions from ancient epic poems. Though there can be challenges to this approach—and sometime ...

A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul ... Our ears hear four heavy beats. As these examples suggest, there’s a lot of variation within the basic pattern — longer or shorter lines ...

By McKinley Franklin Johnny Tillotson, the 1960s chart-topping and Grammy-nominated singer of “Poetry in Motion,” died Tuesday. He was 86. “It is with a broken heart that I write to let you ...

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?

The message, which is written in the form of poem or song lyrics, contains graphic language, racial slurs and endorsements of the Ku Klux Klan. Leicester Superintendent Brett Kustigian told the ...

The alliteration, the enjambment, the weight behind each word was all so precious to me. I don’t use Reddit all that much anymore, but every now and then I open the app just to read this poem again.

When I heard that a previously unpublished poem by Robert Frost had been discovered, I was skeptical. I know Frost’s poetry well, having written “Robert Frost: A Life” and, quite recently ...

Service members who have gone through Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape training, or SERE may get flashbacks from the trailer for the upcoming zombie horror film by Danny Boyle, “28 ...