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We shared their photos with five poets who responded to the images with original poems. The result is a duet between photographer and poet: lens and line, frame and form.
But one of their biggest projects is getting people to write ZIP odes, five-line poems inspired and shaped by your ZIP code. From member station WLRN, reporter Kate Payne brings us one poet's ...
I had things I wanted to say, and so I said them. Word after word, and line after line. Some poems rhymed and some didn’t. I don’t remember worrying about ideas, or how to get an idea ...
will not win the National Poetry Series. The final phrase seems plucked from T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” which gives the last line an unintended comic air, because Eliot is referring to ...
F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...
she noted. For her poem for the Lunar Codex project, Clark said she chose a form called abecedarian, which is a 26-line poem where each line starts with a letter, A-Z, in order of the alphabet ...
Roses are red, violets are blue, Springfield may have the perfect poetry event for you. If you've ever wanted to explore the world of poetry or share your writing with others, now is the time to ...
My own eye latched onto this four-line poem, in the middle of class, because it was so short — which made it seem larger than the others, like the large-print text in Dr. Seuss, almost easier to ...