Mullen says to think of the poem like a movie or a play and you're the director. "What colors would you use? What kind of setting is there? If there's light what kind of light would it be?

But poetry creates just the right tone to convey the larger meaning ... by watching baseball or by having fathers teach sons how to play. For modernist poets—the heirs to Eliot—baseball ...

Poetry of the 16 th and early 17 th century demonstrates the profundity of playing and feigning as human actions: The sonnets of that time play with ... a riddle-spoiler right from the outset.

But “A Play Is a Poem” is a pretentious title for such ... is completely clueless, unable to find the right door or register an innuendo, never mind operate undercover. But a promising comic ...

Let your paper be the house of your poem. How many rooms will you build? One, two or more? Do you want long lines or short lines? Play with their position until you have them just right.

LIMBONG: All right. So what's the backstory here? Where was this poem, "Nothing New," discovered ... I dreamed when I was young at play yet, strangely, not more sad than then.

and I also love to play around based on all the other patterns I run into. So, I have written poems where each line has the same number of syllables as the Fibonacci sequence (a series of numbers ...

And any one of us could be standing in that shadow, which is why finding the right word, is so important.' Hip-hop star Akala meets the poet Imtiaz Dharker to discuss how her poem 'The Right Word ...