Today, as an active writer and consumer of poetry, I know that it can be an incredibly powerful tool in promoting social ...

Over a career that’s now in its seventh decade, Frederick Seidel has published nearly 20 notable collections of poetry—work ...

Inorganic and organic, pain and joy are reconciled in Padel’s poetry through a celebration of diversity, emotional, ...

Jean Toomer’s poetry is a treasure trove of insight, emotion, and artistry. His ability to blend modernist techniques with themes of race, identity, and spirituality makes his work both timeless and ...

Shakespearian sonnets, for example, are 14 lines long and have ... ends with a closing rhyming couplet. A haiku is a short closed form of poetry that relies on a syllable pattern.

Refresh your memory with this short, fun clip ... to learn how rhyme schemes work and to see an example. You can work out the rhyme scheme of a poem by labelling the words that rhyme with each ...

Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a friend poem.

In this column, I will show you the power of “strong repetition.” First, let's examine the “balanced sentence.” “The power of ...

By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Sappho (the poetess) and Alcaeus. What are the top poems inspired by ancient Greece? Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Walters Museum Poetry stands as one of humanity’s oldest art ...

While romance book series and rom-coms certainly make you feel fuzzy inside, poetry strives to distill emotion into a short and sweet (sometimes even bittersweet) message. We’ve gathered the ...