Announcing the 18th annual April Poem-A-Day Challenge on Writer's Digest. Here are the guidelines for this fun annual poeming ...

"Truly fine poetry must be read aloud," said Argentine writer Jose Luis Borges. "A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a ...

Unlike our everyday writing, poetry is artistic, expressive, and figurative. Understanding the subject of a poem The first thing you should do when given a poem is read its title carefully.

And if you ask me how, I do not know. I only feel it, and I’m torn in two. Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness ...