Tying 'Invisible Strings,' author brings together 113 poets to write about Taylor Swift
Kristie Frederick Daugherty is celebrating National Poetry Month in April by partnering with Swift Alert to connect Swifties to poetry.
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Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Janae Lu to publish first chapbook this summer
Despite wanting to be a doctor at first, Janae Lu, 17, found her high school English classes much more interesting than ...
Poetry from Daily Life: Tales of Humpty Dumpty and Jack and Jill are our first poems
Nursery rhymes teach children all manner of things using the language of poetry, writes Australian author and researcher ...
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Book review: April is Poetry Month, a good time to consider 3 new books by Alaskans
Poetry is alive and well in Alaska, and April as Poetry Month is a great time to meet or reacquaint ourselves with three very ...
The Atlantic Publishes ‘The Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far),’ Recognizing the Most Consequential Poetry Collections of the Past 25 Years
T oday The Atlantic launches “The Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far),” a new editorial project that brings ...
'Push the boundaries': Literacy advocate Zell Miller III is Austin's first poet laureate
For 176 years, the city Austin had no poet laureate. Plenty of creative people hung out here. The official post, however, did ...
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Celebrating the Power of Words: Poems from New America Fellows Clint Smith and Sarah Kay
Explore the powerful poetry of former New America Fellows Sarah Kay and Clint Smith, reflecting on culture and the transformative power of words.
Should Statue of Liberty poem guide US immigration policy? What Americans said in poll
The poem reads, in part, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” ...
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Is Robert Frost Even a Good Poet?
Reading Frost requires a kind of modesty and curiosity. Coming to this modesty has been a big part of my own experience with ...
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22 Short Poems That’ll Help You Read More Poetry This Year
At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for ...
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The Aeneid, a 2,000-year-old poem that reads like a playbook for U.S. politics today
(Wikimedia/Free Domain) But there is another way to read the poem through the lens of the ... Harmony Through Music,' Erato 2016 Add some “good” to your morning and evening.
I researched poetry written during COVID – five years on, here’s how people say it helped them
The American scholar of 20th-century literature and culture Elizabeth Outka has argued that works such as The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats (1919) and The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot (1922) can be read ...