This link is currently the 2nd most popular piece of Web flotsam on Reddit today. It's called "Airline Complaint." Now, a rant is not a traditional poetic form, but that doesn't mean diddlysquat. I ...

Poetry is likely our oldest linguistic art form, predating even the invention of writing — the first poems were recited and chanted as part of the oral tradition. It has been practiced for millennia ...

In this exercise, you will use the knowledge you have gained from class discussions about poetic language and poetic structure to move beyond our classwork and interpret poems you have not seen before ...

Mary Jo Bang is professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program at Washington University. Her fifth book, "Elegy," which won of the National Book Critics Circle Award, examines the ...

It’s Not Too Late for Influencers to End the Groyper Grift Audio By Carbonatix James Matthew Wilson is an award-winning professor of religion and literature at Villanova University and the author of ...

“I’ve looked at pictures, slides my parents took afterwards, and remember how gray and cold and dreary England was in comparison to the vibrant colors of Africa,” said Mark Ford. Born in Nairobi, ...

One of the most stubborn stereotypes in modern culture is that of the oddball math genius—the rumpled savant too busy manipulating abstruse symbols to cope with daily life. This image is usually ...

Editors' Note: This essay is one of a group of essays on Race and the Poetic Avant-Garde. Read the rest. What is “avant-garde poetry”? is a question long on answers, if short on consensus. On the one ...

Throughout the month of June, the Adirondack Center for Writing has been celebrating pride and self-expression. On Saturday they’re hosting an open mic night. During the day, you can sign up for a ...