Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon epic poem about the defeat of Grendel – a creature whose exact form is still debated. Depending on ...

And we left it at that. The truth is, while I admired Rose’s serious, thoughtful poems, I just didn’t think poetry was for me. Not long after, while writing funny songs for The Rosie O ...

Chief among the insights we gain from reading history is that what we read is often relevant to what we are experiencing ...

Poet J. K. Kennedy discusses balancing humor with anxiety and/or grief in poetry and shares five tricks she uses to illustrate her emotions without letting them turn into quicksand for the reader.

Musicians have long taken inspiration from poetry for their work; here are four rock songs that pull from well-known poems.

An imagined chat with Pooh commemorates the 100th anniversary of A.A. Milne’s “When We Were Very Young.” David Orr is the ...

Two poets who are known and well-loved in mid-Missouri recently released dispatches into the wider world. Each shows off a key facet of their literary personalities and, in their way, different ...

Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write an ...

I’m sure somewhere in the annals of this blog series I’ve suggested that laughter and humor infiltrate almost every facet of our lives. They appear in our exchanges at home with family ...

You can usually stir up debate by comparing song lyrics to poetry. As a publication that ... that make a great song just as worthy as a great poem, even as these two separate types of artistic ...