You can read "A Carafe, that is a Blind Glass" by Gertrude Stein, which is old enough to have shifted into the public domain, on the Poetry Foundation website. Lewis Carroll loved his creatures ...

The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation (Dodge Foundation) and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) will continue their ...

The Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University recently received a $40,000 grant from the Poetry Foundation.

Learn about rhythm in poetry and how it can be used as device which has an effect on the reader. How to understand open and closed form in poetry Closed form poetry uses stricts patterns of rhymes ...

“I want a happy ending,” the mother says, folding up the story and setting it on her nightstand. “You don’t know how to write happy.” An indispensable part of the ceremony, of course ...

The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) continue their 2024 Dodge Poetry ...

Do you hear a regular beat da-DUM, da-DUM? This rhythm is very common in poetry and it even has a name: it’s called iambic. Poets often choose to write in this rhythm. Rhythm can help to ...

William Shakespeare is the bestselling poet of all time. The word 'poetry' is from the Greek term poiesis, which means 'making'. The oldest written poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh originating from ...

Critical Sociology, Vol. 48, Issue. 4-5, p. 847. African American poetry is as old as America itself, yet this touchstone of American identity is often overlooked. In this critical history of African ...

Adam is Gboyega Odubanjo’s first full-length book of poetry. As far as I know, unless there is another completed manuscript waiting to be published, it will be his last until a collected poems ...

Do you hear a regular beat da-DUM, da-DUM? This rhythm is very common in poetry and it even has a name: it’s called iambic. Poets often choose to write in this rhythm. Rhythm can help to ...