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

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 ...

Emily Dickinson explained what the feeling of writing poetry is like, “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were ...

Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a ...

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

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Peggy Shumaker, a stalwart supporter of Alaska writers and the larger arts community, is a professor emerita from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a former Alaska writer laureate. Author of nine ...

Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga lead the festivities in a new Broadway revue of the great musical dramatist’s work.

Jazz” by Harry Trumfio Judge’s comment: The beat of the music comes through in the rhythm of the poem. The metaphor of ...