These factors combine to paint a picture where poetry is on its deathbed and struggling for breath. As a young person in ...

Je suis né croyant.” I’ve been snagging on that phrase for decades. It means, “I was born believing.” The mystic modernist composer Olivier Messiaen often ...

If you will allow a domestic metaphor, consider that every action ... No one knows what ignites the wood frog’s heartbeat after this extended spell of suspension. But it might be that the ...

And instantly thereafter, the synapses connected, and I realized that I had a metaphor of oppression much ... They provided an example of an art to me when I was a kid that has really meant ...

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid ...

For example, consider how MasterCard's long-running “Priceless ... That's why so many iconic campaigns embrace clever wordplay, unexpected metaphors, delightful turns of phrase, and messaging that ...

And then my third poem, very classic poem, Walt Whitman, it's called "A Noiseless Patient Spider," an extended metaphor poem. And we're comparing a spider out on a lake, casting its webs ...

The sun is shining, the flowers are blooming and the afternoon breezes are doing their best to hold off the sure-to-come heat ...

The Rose Art Museum invited students to perform their poetry in conversation with Hugh Hayden’s exhibition, “Home Work.” I ...

The lyricism varies from blunt character portraits and slice-of-life vignettes to political commentary and extended metaphors. While every track stands magnificently on its own, some get buried in the ...

Frequently sweeping across the stage like a Dust Bowl wind, the staccato bursts of poetry help Solis to ... which uses descriptive language and extended metaphors to convey the bleak magnitude ...

Talk about people like your cousin Nabil and how you’ve been translating his writing and his poetry. SARAH AZIZA ... in the greater, like, extended family, over 200 people.