Just about every day now has a special observance associated with it. Among other things, April 30th is National Honesty Day, ...
An early ninth-century manuscript containing a text of the first known poem in the English language has been discovered in ...
The poet who composed the oldest surviving English poem was apparently illiterate, unmusical, and a common cowherd from ...
“It’s one of the moments of Western consciousness,” says Frederick Seidel, 90, the author of more than a dozen collections of ...
Step 2: Commit to reading one poem a day. Read out loud whenever possible and read each poem more than once. Jot down the ...
To paraphrase Audre Lorde, we need poetry because there are no new ideas — only new ways of making them felt. "And, boy, do ...
One prompt: ‘The Love of Toes After an Injury in the Style of Poe.’ Lots of people claim that writing poetry is something ...
Most performers at the Uptown Poetry Slam get one poem; Del Valle, who made a surprise appearance for National Poetry Month, ...
It felt very spiritual to do," said Brad Paisley of transforming one of Johnny Cash's poems into a song. "It felt like Johnny ...
When was the last time you picked up a pen and composed a letter to a friend or a family member? NPR's poet in residence Kwame Alexander reminds us that letter writing delivers something more to the ...
Redhawk Publications announces the release of Tattoos, Tacos and Time: A Poetry Collection by poet Angela Leigh, a deeply ...
A cento is a poem written using borrowed lines, like ones from this publication. Don’t forget to give credit. By Leah Umansky Imitation is the best kind of flattery. All creative people, whether they ...