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 ...

Creativity, however, was always part of the equation for Rovindra. From early roles in school plays to being described as “expressive” and having the gift of the gab, it was clear that Persaud had ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite wanting to be a doctor at first, Janae Lu, 17, found her high school English classes much more interesting than ...

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