PLUMTREE-BASED poet Kwanele Khumalo (28) last month released his debut poetry collection, Stolen Village Drum. With a unique voice that weaves together themes of love, cultural loss, poverty and ...

What Poetry Teaches Us About the Power of Persuasion. By Dorothea Lasky. October 13, 2012. ... Poetry, more than any other form of writing, trains students to take into account the style of language.

One poem that I liked, and which I had memorized, was “I Am Not Yours” by Sara Teasdale: I am not yours, not lost in you, Not lost, although I long to be Lost as a candle lit at noon, Lost as ...

Beowulf is a poem about power and battle and gold and kingship and monsters, about words and metaphors and alliteration and storytelling. It’s English’s oldest poem, ...

The strangeness of the medieval poem “Pearl,” now out in a new translation, magnifies its emotional power. Courtesy The British Library Board, Cotton Nero A. X, art.3, f.42 ...

Our critic A.O. Scott marvels at the power and paradox of a sonnet by Gwendolyn Brooks. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Here’s a poem about patience, about self-control, about the need to conserve ...

Kwame Alexander, our poet-in-residence, loves power naps. Write a poem about how a nap helps you restore, and it may be read on Morning Edition.

FROM FROM: Poems, by Monica Youn (Graywolf, 147 pp., paperback, $17) ... In Kim’s metapoetics, the apparent futility of poetry is part of its surreptitious power.

On Tuesday, she opened a day of speeches and conversations with women across industries with her poem about the power all women possess. "We are not victims, we are victors," Gorman continued ...