There was a time, not too long ago, when many people could only name one, maybe two, poets – often a long-dead White man named William Shakespeare, Robert Frost or Walt Whitman. Meanwhile, the Lincoln ...

Every poem has structural features that have a bearing on the way the poem sounds or what it means. To comment on the structure of a poem is just the same as commenting on its language – you notice ...

AMERICAN POETRY now belongs to a subculture. No longer part of the mainstream of artistic and intellectual life, it has become the specialized occupation of a relatively small and isolated group.

John Liles. Yale Univ., Mar. 25 ($45, ISBN 978-0-300-27941-2) Science, the natural world, and the threat of climate change animate this debut from the winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize.

Over the past decade or two, society changed. Lifestyles changed. People changed. But poetry didn't and so was left behind. This is the view most Gulf News readers expressed, when we put poetry's ...

The form of a poem is how we describe the overarching structure or pattern of the poem. Some forms of poetry must stick to very specific rules about length, rhythm and rhyme. Poets enjoy playing with ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are your favorite ways to teach poetry? After publishing 56—yes, count ‘em, 56—posts, videos, infographics, and podcasts over the past two months providing ...