Shakespeare reading "Hamlet" to his family, circa 1600. Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences. A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 ...

Is it for some burial place, vast and dry? Is it to wet the soil of graves? This poem is written in free verse. Try writing your own free verse poem. It doesn't have to rhyme or use a structure ...

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 ...

No blogging until Monday for me; it's just as well, as I haven't been able to speak with my most reliable Martina Hingis sources yet. I'll keep you posted and hopefully I'll have an update next ...

Poe’s writing career began in the early 1820s with the release of “Tamerlane and Other Poems,” a collection ... which seems to be hanging in the air, and as the narrator slips in and out ...

Just one beautiful line of poetry can stay with you forever. So feel inspired with these quotes from poets including Rupi Kaur, Sylvia Plath and Audre Lorde. “Poetry begins with a lump in the ...

Or has our focus on poems like Owen's distorted our view of ... And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime…Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,As under a green sea, I saw ...

Discover Pakistan's thriving contemporary arts scene in this first-ever U.S. museum survey exhibition. Acclaimed artist and scholar Salima Hashmi is guest curator for the exhibition, which includes ...

Then there are poems written in the voice of Baartman herself: a mix of Khoekhoe dialect words and euphonic, often musical, phrasing. This wide-ranging method has, almost necessarily, mixed results.

Delhi's pollution looms as a young writer reflects on a suffocating city in his poem, expressing a deep, tender rage against ...

White wine drinkers are pretty much in the clear, but red wine devotees are risking it all when it comes to white shirts, ...