“For a long time,” writes Kathleen Jamie in her afterword to The Keelie Hawk (Picador £12.99), “I’ve wanted to write a suite ...

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

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

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

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.

In an acrostic poem, the first letter of each line spells a word. The word is the subject of the poem. She really really likes stars. But this is no ordinary poem. This is an acrostic. So there is ...

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

Daniel Boone Regional Library suggests short-story collections perfect for stretching the mind in smaller doses.

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 ...