This isn’t to disparage rap or spoken word poetry (whose complex rhyming schemes can amaze) or those who wish to writer verse ...

It is not often a poem becomes a hot topic of conversation among the general public. The last time it happened was four years ago when Amanda Gorman read her poem The Hill We Climb at Joe Biden's ...

The furore was about a poem called V by northern English poet Tony Harrison – a work inspired by vandalised gravestones in his hometown Leeds – which was originally published in January 1985 ...

The poem’s formal but flexible, and always musical, iambic pentameter – as so often in poetry in English, the metre of each line contains five feet, each with an unstressed syllable followed ...

Here, we explain what iambic pentameter is and how to speak in it, and list a few iconic Shakespeare performances to check out. ... Used in traditional poetry and verse, ...

Renowned poet and Detroit native Michael Heffernan, winner of the 1998 Porter Prize for Poetry and author of a dozen collections of critically acclaimed poetry, died Friday. He was 81.

Still Life with Mackerels, Lemons and Tomatoes (1886) by Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) Source: Oskar Reinhart Foundation, public domain When I first began to do public readings of my poetry, I ...

And some requests are a little more complicated: Someone remembers a phrase from high school English and asks for a poem in iambic pentameter ("I tell them that'll take some time, and ask for ...

When you walk into a poetry reading or a poetry workshop, so often, it’s a bunch of white guys in their 60s. … I’m there facilitating the group, but the value for me is immeasurable.

poetry. Lately, I’ve had Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons‘ masterpiece Watchmen on hand as my go-to reading material for when I’ve had a free minute and I’ve read through it a few times over ...