Three years ago, a young spoken word poet named Sarah Kay dazzled the TED Conference, earning two standing ovations. Her performance about writing poetry to entertain and educate has since received ...

Too often, students receive the message in their English classes that poetry exists to be analyzed. They learn terms, strategies and complicated acronyms to remember them—all in the service of solving ...

Poems rhyme some of the time; oftentimes they don’t. But what distinguishes a poem from other herds of words is how a poem combines rhythm and precision to make meaning and move us: capturing a moment ...

Ever wondered what sparks a poet’s creativity? Find out about the journeys of some of our Words That Burn poets. In these short videos, you’ll hear personal reflections, creative challenges, and ...

As a follow-up to yesterday’s article featuring five poets discussing their 2021 releases, today Kelli Russell Agodon, author of Dialogues with Rising Tides (Copper Canyon Press), Tenille K. Campbell, ...

"It's difficult to write a successful love poem," said local poet Aaron Anstett, Pikes Peak poet laureate from 2008 to 2010. "It's a complicated, sometimes messy feeling, and so finding language that ...

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