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 ...

It often appears in classical plays, epic poetry, and stylized modern works ... The works of William Shakespeare are arguably most famous examples of heightened language, with their use of ...

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

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 ...

For National Poetry Month, city of Charleston poet laureate AsiahMae is reading a poem every day via a video on Instagram.

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

Poetry combined with hip-hop, classical and pop music has young poets competing for prizes from $100 to $1,000 at this year’s ...

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 ...

Daughtry is now planning the annual, three-day “Our Voices: Festival of Words” event this month, what he calls “an attempt to ...