Another common and pleasurable use of alliteration is to make insults or terms of abuse, such as lily-livered, first attested ...

In a blooming garden in Santa Monica, Santa Monica College’s English professors invited their students to share and read their poetry works.

Barry Hill’s new poetry collection Lamb blends insightful, impatient and powerful commentary with grandfatherly reflections ...

Barely old enough to feed ourselves, to locate love on the insides of rib cages, to know better. And then you came, slow at ...

Five years of Monet's life in South Florida culminated in her latest poetry collection, Florida Water, which touches on ...

You know the saying "kids say the darnedest things?" As author Matt Forrest Esenwine explains, they write some pretty wild poems, too.

This hour, we talk with Connecticut artist and visual poet Monica Ong. We hear how she’s merging the worlds of science, art ...

Amal Kassir, a Syrian American poet, was named Hillsborough's 2025-27 poet laureate in May and hopes to connect with the ...

David Roy chats to Dublin poet Siobhán Flynn, winner of this year’s Mairtín Crawford Award for Poetry at the Belfast Book ...

A rhopalic poem or sentence is one in which each successive word is one letter (or, typically in poetry, one syllable) longer than the previous one. Due to the fact that the personal pronoun ...

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Poems from the distant past mentioned these ... The study “builds on many prior examples on how historical texts of various kinds can help understand past species distributions and, not least ...