April is National Poetry Month, and it’s worth celebrating. But don’t take our word for it – just ask these poets about their craft and their colleagues. 2. “He who draws noble delights ...

David L. Harrison I’m a fan of narrative poems, poems that tell a story. As I see it, that’s how poetry started, with epic poems that had to be memorized to be passed down, as people didn’t ...

Sponsor Message An epistolary poem is a poem in the form a letter — from the Latin, epistula, for letter. It can tell a story, pose a question, voice a desire – or a cry for help. We're asking ...

"It's important to challenge myself to read things that I quote-unquote ... adds poetry often gets "a bad rep for being inaccessible because it doesn't always tell a story in a linear way." " ...

The story of the poem’s creation has circulated almost as ... Pelosi and Comey, however distinct they are as political figures, quote Lazarus to support a liberal narrative of American ...

We are going to do an epistolary poem, from the Latin epistola, for letter. So we are quite literally going to write poems that read as letters. They can tell a story. They can ask something.

Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In his memoir, "Story of a Poem" (Unnamed Press), the celebrated writer Michael Zapruder (author of "Father's Day ...

Matthew Zapruder’s new memoir, “Story of a Poem,” isn’t just about a poem. It’s also the story of a writer, a father, a husband, a son — and this story has a plot twist: The author’s ...

When I was invited to curate a series of poems for De Los, I knew I wanted to tell the story of belonging to a ... She has performed her poetry internationally in English and Spanish, and has ...