In honoring National Poetry Month, Loyola staff and students reckon with the benefits and conflicts of poetry reading in ...

If you’ve ever talked about “the birds and the bees” or referenced “the best laid plans of mice and men,” then you’ve inadvertently quoted some of the English language’s most famous poets.

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 ...

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

One of the late Jacques Derrida’s most useful exercises in linguistic play was to hyphenate “represent.” The word that ...

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

A poetry jam event hosted by the library brought the SFSU community together to celebrate National Poetry Month.

Olympic Theatre Arts’ fledgling Reader’s Theatre Club will perform two matinee shows of the children’s poetry book turned ...

What’s your favorite Langston Hughes poem? Maybe it’s one you grew up with. Maybe it’s one you stumbled across in a moment of ...

Using their analytical skills when interacting with stanzas for the first time helps students uncover deeper meaning in ...

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?

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: maybe because it came as an unexpected gift from a friend or loved one, or in ...