There’s joy in writing terrible poetry. In looking back at it and laughing a little. It’s the joy of having tried something ...

Over six decades after she first hit the scene, Judy Collins remains one of the most iconic artists of the '60s folk movement ...

F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...

One of those “punch lines” appears in one of his Memorial Day poems: “As haunting notes of Taps so softly fade away, I say in fond and sad farewell ... m one or two words away from it.” Then he added ...

American soul singer Luther Vandross has died at the age of 54, two years after suffering a major stroke ... a less explicit era in his songs of romance and desire. "I'm more into poetry and metaphor, ...

In her debut collection, Nafanua Purcell Kersel, born in Samoa and raised in New Zealand, has produced a great piece of work. Black Sugarcane is mainly interested in family, community and ...

Yang Deli (front) teaches a poetry class to her students from Mangshui Town Central School in a field in Changning county, Yunnan province, on Sept 2. XINHUA KUNMING — Teenage poet Li Ling hails ...

Clevedon Community Press is set to publish two new poetry collections. The small independent press, part of Clevedon’s Community Bookshop Co-operative, will release "Tidelines: A Year of the Coast" ...

I became friends with Helen Vendler — the legendary poetry ... the two parenthetical lines around the mouth that always seemed on the verge of saying something meaningful and the sad-kind ...

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"Therefore, my story ends." Couplets are the most versatile form of rhyming poetry. Whatever your mood or your message, you can start with two lines that rhyme and add other rhymed pairs if you ...