High school students who study poetry forms come away with confidence to analyze poetry and to create and share their own ...

Brian Krebs worked as a reporter for The Washington Post from 1995 to 2009, authoring more than 1,300 blog posts for the Security Fix blog, as well as hundreds of stories for washingtonpost.com ...

Poems about life for nearly every situation P oetry doesn’t just reflect life—it makes life an object of art. Whatever state or mood you’re in, poems about life are there to guide you, to ease you and ...

The form of a poem is how we describe the overarching structure or pattern of the poem. Some forms of poetry must stick to very specific rules about length, rhythm and rhyme. Poets enjoy playing ...

Winner of the 2024 Academy of American Poets Prize Leila A. Jackson '26 speaks about her winning piece, "Exit Wound," and ...

In a world where we often have less agency than we'd like, poetry offers the freedom and control we crave, Heidi Mordhorst ...

Tom Emanuel receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). If you have read The Lord of the Rings, there is a good chance that you skipped over one or more of the 75 songs ...

These aren't just any poems either—they're some of the most famous and influential lines ever written in the history of the ...

Best known for his experimental use of form and punctuation, American poet Edward Estlin Cummings (1894–1962) helped redefine modernist free-verse poetry. His short lines (unconventional at the ...

October 1, 2024 • In his first nonfiction book in a decade, Coates reflects on what he learned while visiting three different places: Senegal, South Carolina and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

I think I’ll always write about femininity and the natural world, but in terms of form — of how I write poetry now — that has shifted a bit. I think my poetry now is a bit sparser and more terse.