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

For a shorter exercise, pick a vowel and write a poem where every word includes that vowel. Or write a poem from the ...

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 ...

Google Docs has a long-awaited new tabs feature—here are some tips for how to use it and how it can be helpful in your ...

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

I rarely admit to writing poetry when talking to people I’ve just met. Asked what I do for a living during a night out with ...

Hecker’s work points back to Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1876 poem L’Après-midi d’un faune—and its subsequent musical and ...

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

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said he had evidence to the contrary: a love poem Kasubhai wrote more than 30 years ago as a law school student, called “Sensualized Property Theory.” And then, to the horror ...

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

Are we tossed in tune when we write poems? For Perloff, the difficulty of this kind of poem had a political ... Perloff made a similar argument in her 1999 essay “In Defense of Poetry,” where she ...