I often hear from peers and students that poetry is intimidating, but poetry is actually one of the purest forms of expression. Every single word, even syllable, matters in a poem, capturing the ...

When reading poetry a reader will interpret what it means to them. Everyone's response is different. What is imagery? Learn about how writers use imagery, the impact of imagery and how it appeals ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include a spectacular collection from Ron Padgett and a dark, posthumous work by Tove Ditlevsen ...

Dorothea Mackellar’s poem from 1908, My Country, is famous in Australia despite its outmoded colonial assumptions. Many ...

We’re taught to tear poetry apart -- until its true intentions are lost somewhere among technical jargon and cryptic symbolism. Reading poetry for fun often becomes intimidating, too scholarly ...

Founded in 1997, The Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College has a core mission to bring poets of national ... In each of these video testimonials, poets talk about who they were as high school ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly ...

The Fields Poetry Reading Series is set to launch its inaugural season on Thursday, March 20 at the Auditorium-Theater of the historic duCret Center of Art, 1030 Central Ave., Plainfield.

This rhythm is very common in poetry and it even has a name ... like galloping hooves adding to the dramatic re-telling of the famous charge on horseback into the enemy’s guns : A poet is ...

I invite any Jewish or Israeli poet who has not delved into contemporary Palestinian poetry to step behind enemy lines to read these and other poets. Reading them means experiencing not only the ...