F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...

It bridged the worlds of poetry and reality, allowing someone to confront their very real grief in a safer space where their ...

At the most extreme, some forms of constrained writing are even more self-limiting and end up being very, very constrained ...

Last week, we picked up our 5-year-old son from his public kindergarten in Beijing. On the way home, he proudly recited a ...

In this week's column, author Lesléa Newman offers some advice for overcoming the anxiety that stems from struggling to start ...

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Both ‘The Iliad’ and rap battles encourage us, the listeners, to react, reflect and ultimately select with which speaker to ...

In the summer of 1969, as the Vietnam War raged, Jimi Hendrix stepped onto the Woodstock  stage and bent the US national anthem into a wail of anguish. His electric guitar screeched  bombs and ...

This week, let’s all learn one together! Meet your poem Rhythm and rhyme Made in N.Y.C. Greet the ... The words in “Recuerdo” form a bouquet of arresting images and sensations, an experience ...

Lacroy Nixon has spent the past 10 years making poetry into more than just an art form. Now, his efforts have resulted in ... It’s just, there’s never been infrastructure for it,” Nixon said. “But one ...

There hadn’t been any for a while, and I thought I’d like to do this Frank O’Hara poem, “Having a Coke With You.” It was going to be just a one-off ... to rhymes, to line breaks, to ...