What is it about life’s big and little moments that calls for a poem? At weddings. At funerals. On greeting cards. In church. On the radio. At moments of great happiness or deep sadness. At beginnings ...
As a scholar, she focused on clarifying the mechanics of that artistry. Her magnum opus, The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, is a feat of “close reading,” examining the 154 poems word by word to wring ...
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 ...