"As I was growing up, I began to be attracted to a certain kind of man," Lucinda Williams once wrote, "and I would maintain ...

Poetry has been an essential part of many countries’ popular culture for centuries. Italy, Russia, Iran, Chile, Poland, and Nicaragua are good examples, to name just a few. In these places, professors ...

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Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, for instance, is fairly easy to say, but if you mix in two slightly different ...

Washington poet Eric Ode often finds ideas while out walking. Here he shares a poem inspired by the prickly (or not) holly ...

Using their analytical skills when interacting with stanzas for the first time helps students uncover deeper meaning in poetry.

Grant High School junior Bena Rodecap wins Oregon's Poetry Out Loud championship and will compete nationally in Washington, D.C. this May.

K-12 students are invited to write poems in response to current events in the Pulitzer Center's annual Fighting Words Poetry Contest.

On which this world dances. As I meditate with thy name. This world is run on expectations! Here if blemish exists then beauty survives too.

An acrostic poem in which the initial letters spell out the alphabet is called an " abecedarius." Interestingly, there are several abecedarian poems in the Bible (based on the Hebrew alphabet).

She was the first author whose name is known in all of recorded history: the poet, princess and priestess of Mesopotamia - Enheduana. Were you surprised? "When people ask who the first author is, they ...

High school students who study poetry forms come away with confidence to analyze poetry and to create and share their own poems.