Portrait of Marianne Moore by George Platt Lynes from the exhibit, “Poetic Likeness: Modern American Poets” at the National Portrait Gallery, courtesy of the museum Historian and poet David Ward ...

In this exercise, you will use the knowledge you have gained from class discussions about poetic language and poetic structure to move beyond our classwork and interpret poems you have not seen before ...

Poet and professor Matthew Zapruder (@matthewzapruder) says that the way that poetry is taught often gets in the way of enjoying and understanding it. He writes about ways to look at poetry anew in ...

Post written by Aneta Pavlenko. On January 15, 1605, a young Dutch woman, Brechje Spiegels, died suddenly, catching everyone by surprise. A few days earlier her beloved, poet Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft ...

The way we talk and chatter really seems to matter. If our words are a delight, people think that we are right. You might shudder at my clumsy attempt at poetry above, but research suggests that there ...

When Peter Cook and Clayton Valli take the stage to perform their American Sign Language poetry, they’ll be carrying on a tradition that’s already more than 100 years old. To be performed at Columbia ...

Friday night Beyond Baroque does what it does best — host and present a roster of diverse and important voices from the world of poetry. And they do mean the world, as Tanya Ko Hong hosts the East ...