"If I had to isolate this type of writing and give it a sort of poetry genre, it's more of an ode, an 'in praise of' the ...

Discover The Master of Unfinished Things by Geet Chaturvedi, a poetic blend of memoir, essays, and diary, translated by Anita ...

So why is it that people who “can’t write poetry” really do stop right there and never write poems? The fear of failure is so huge for poetry. Before we start, we’re thinking about Emily ...

The bodies of children, Clare thought, have the same grace as plants: They sprawl and reach and bend, they help themselves to ...

Today, we help you pay attention to the sound and feel of this week’s poem. Play our game to see how much you’ve already ...

But when most writing about poetry is done by poets and lifelong ... There’s a great essay by Neil Hertz called “Two Extravagant Teachings,” which is about being in a seminar and doing ...

A pair of Beaty-Warren students have had poems selected for the 2025 WPSU Poetry Writing Contest. According to Meggie Brown, ...

Author Joseph Bruchac shares a poem about a bumblebee and how taking the time to listen to the natural world led him to it.

To write truth today is to believe, stubbornly, that humanity is more than its hashtags and more enduring than its headlines ...

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) announced the winners of the 84th annual McKinney Writing Contest on April 9 with the ...