Peace Akinwale and I graduated from the same university, the University of Ilorin. He was among the few creatives on campus ...

A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose edited by Ian Hickey and Eugene O’Brien; Citizen Poet: New & Selected Essays by Eavan Boland ...

For a shorter exercise, pick a vowel and write a poem where every word includes that vowel. Or write a poem from the perspective of an object — what would your uni fridge say if it could talk? Or that ...

There is no Dutch tradition as cherished as the Sinterklaas poem (well, except perhaps Zwarte Piet). But, what is this mysterious sinterklaasgedicht — and how do you write one? If it’s your first ...

He loved making poems out of paintings (by Edvard Munch, Pieter de Hooch, Paolo Uccello and so on) and, almost as much, out ...

In a essay called Race Log later in the collection, Wang weaves accounts of racing on Wednesday nights with thoughts on ...

When he first started teaching, Eli Burrell was shocked at the "almost disdainful reaction" of students to poetry.

Teenage poet Li Ling hails from a mountainous town in southwest China Yunnan ProvinceYet her poem Dark Night has transcended ...

If I come across ‘Dad’ or ‘Mommy,’ I’m out,” says the former U.S. poet laureate. “‘Grandma’ gets a pass.” His new collection ...

In this collection, “We’re Alone,” the Columbia professor traces a loose arc from childhood to the pandemic and recent events ...

Teenage poet Li Ling hails from a mountainous town in southwest China Yunnan Province Yet her poem Dark Night has transcended geographical limitatio ...