Of late, a dear friend of mine seems to have caught what I can only describe as a serious case of poetic flu. No, he isn’t ...

In this poem, Millay often places her strong beats after two unstressed syllables: da-da-DUM. But like any good poet, she achieves both consistency and variety. In some lines, the syllables land ...

Aileen Cassinetto’s “Catalog of Cures in Ordinary Time” establishes that necessary urgency in the first line and maintains it ...

Ambedkarite activist Vira Sathidar's widow Pushpa Sathidar and two others have been booked for sedition by Nagpur police over ...

Being attuned to the written line breaks, or stanza breaks ... In the writing of two of my books of poetry, I have acutely felt the book as a whole as a container. It first occurred in the ...

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The two frequented a weekly poetry slam in ... Funston opened the floor during that January event with a poem with a resounding line, "I am fruit," that the audience was encouraged to repeat.

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Kesari Chapter 2 faces allegations of plagiarism as YouTuber and poet Yahya Bootwala accused the film's writer of copying ...

On Friday and through the Memorial Day weekend, you may see people handing out and wearing red flowers. Here's why.

Romeo and Juliet, at the end of Act III in Shakespeare’s play, recite an aubade for two voices as ... s the oldest pickup line in the book. In 17th-century English poetry, lustful swains ...

Poems must be original to the author and no longer than 40 lines, including blank lines between ... $100 for third place and $25 for each of two honorable mentions. Participation is free and ...