For National Poetry Month, I’ve curated a playlist of seven songs that represent poetic devices like allusion, irony and rhyme. I call it “the wordplaylist.” Prepare to be taken back to middle school ...

Stephen Malkmus told Rolling Stone that Wowee Zowee was designed to be listened to with tracks randomly shuffled. His idea, presumably, was that the frayed ends of one song would dovetail into the ...

Two professors in the Creative Writing Program turned to the seventh-century style of verse during the pandemic to tackle the ...

When you spend time with poetry, you expect a certain kind of relationship between author and reader. That’s only part of ...

Libraries, schools and cultural organizations around Massachusetts and the country celebrate April as National Poetry Month. In honor of that occasion, please enjoy the official state ...

An archive has revealed a handwritten copy of a 200-year-old poem originally written to prove rhyming is easy after an argument at a breakfast table. Marking World Poetry Day, Longleat in ...

Community members are invited to attend Poetry in Parks, 1-4 p.m. Saturday, April 12 at Alhecama Theatre, 215A E. Canon Perdido St., Santa Barbara. The ...

For example, 'Cheese' and 'peas' are words that both have the same sound. You can write rhyming poems by using pairs or groups of words that use the same sounds. Narrator: In order for words to ...

Stamford’s beloved open mic night Rhymes on the Rocks will celebrate its one-year anniversary with a special event at Ink & ...

A national poetry campaign aimed at raising vital funds and increasing visibility for Scotland’s LGBTQ+ youth has announced that selected submissions will be published in a new book.

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?