Michelle Latvala’s debut collection “Beyond Latitudes” captures both the complicated grief and the quiet joy that lace every ...

Mary Margaret Hughes, who got her start in classrooms and on stages in Springfield, writes about how creativity and ...

Marilyn Narey’s main challenge in preparing her entry for Pennsylvania’s “Art of the State” contest was that she could only ...

Feeling stuck or scattered? These poetry-based techniques help you slow down, name what’s real, and get clear with yourself.

Discover the most touching poems and quotes to let your dad know just how much he means to you, because no one deserves it more.

Nathan Kernan’s biography of the New York School poet tracks the development of his serene and joyful work alongside the ...

The two books considered here bring together Donaghy’s complete writings – most notably of course his outstanding poems. He first came to major ... though in his last interview (with John Stammers) in ...

the experiment’s elaborate logistics for tracking the sensation of chills enabled it to identify key “chill-driving features of poetic language,” including word positions (chills were most likely to ...

A nonnet is a nine-line poem that starts with a line of nine syllables ... Write about physics with no predetermined form. Let the language shape itself. See where the words take you.

Perhaps we learn the basic form of the haiku in grade school or the shape ... these lines, the scholar Jonathan Culler writes in his book “Theory of the Lyric” that poetry’s “efficacy ...

In “Ward Toward,” a poem can be a three-page essay, a paragraph, a stylized email from Ok’s mother, or even verses in the shape of North ... with each stanza’s lines numbered from one ...