Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write an ...
Ranking Shakespeare’s poems is not easy, and scholars and readers often argue about which of his works stand out the most. However, the magic of Shakespeare’s poetry lies in its ability to ...
Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...
When I was a ninth-grader growing up in Encanto, I used to struggle with poems that just wouldn’t work out. After a whole day ...
Let nature hypothesize man’s indifference to it. Let nature take a turn at saying what love is!
The indie-pop singer-songwriter makes her literary debut with ‘Eat the World,’ an insightful and introspective collection ...
It’s a great way to really show you understand the poem and have some fun sharing it with other people! It’s not always easy though. Watch this short clip for some tips on how to memorise a ...
A SAVVY man blagged £230 of freebies from his favourite brands - after he wrote them POEMS. Andrew Cunningham, from Glasgow, spotted a tip online which claimed supermarkets send free gifts if ...
Poetry is close to my heart. I would be lost without its very specific magic, its ability to spark wonder and shock and to open up fresh vistas on life in God. But as W. H. Auden famously says in his ...
Of course, poetry’s as overwhelmed as we are ... is bad and that bad books are tickets to Harvard? Is it really that easy? Is this book making fun of me? But that uncertainty is the point ...