As a high school English teacher, I balk a little at the idea of April’s National Poetry Month; isn’t Poetry Month every month? I begin the school year with poem annotations, a gentle practice of ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/style.53.2.0236 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/style.53.2.0236 Copy URL ABSTRACT: Poetry is formal. Rhythm and form are closely ...

*Laura Muensterer, the German-born, Texas-raised twenty-three year old poet who now calls Southern California home, empathically states, “poetry means freedom,” the moment we sit down and I ask her ...

Poetry, perhaps more than any other form of writing, delves deep into emotions. And rhythm, from the haunting repetitions of "Annabel Lee" to the taunting questions of "The Love Song of J. Alfred ...

Critics often treat the bibliography of a poet like a phone number, chunking the output into smaller units, marking shifts that occur over the arc of a life. There is the early work, the mature work, ...

HOUMA — For a little while each month, the erratic noise of daily life fades into the background, replaced by the rhythmic words used to express thoughts, feelings and experiences. Poetry writers and ...

Bermudian poet Alan C. Smith is swiftly gaining a reputation as a cat poet, but his cat poems are never cutesy, tend to be fully clawed, and are rarely about cats at all. Some of Mr. Smith?s cat poems ...

“Music is like poetry is like Shakespeare is like me,” I wrote in my polka-dotted notebook while watching a performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5. I was on a field trip with my Humanities ...