I was caught off-guard for a second, then I thought perhaps the best answer would be to simply share an example of how I got an idea and how I developed it into a poem. I picked one of my most ...

These factors combine to paint a picture where poetry is on its deathbed and struggling for breath. As a young person in ...

Malayalam and English poet Aleena speaks of her experiences in dealing with bigotry and how Savarnas perceive her online ...

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch," "The early bird catches the worm" — these and other proverbs are poems ...

Washington, after all, drew inspiration from 18th-century Paris when French engineer Pierre Charles L’Enfant was commissioned to design the city following his service in the American Revolution. I am ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

I realize the time that has passed, and I am a few years away from my mistakes, / And a few thousand miles from the person I ...

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...