It’s a short poem—there are only three more lines after these—and Bidart doesn’t let the comic mood stand. The playfulness crumples (as does, in a sense, the dog itself, once he’s been “Held up to a ...

FREDERICK, Md. (AP) -- Barbara Wiles of Frederick has been writing poems for as long as she can remember. For most of that time, she kept them to herself. Since 2007, she has been reading an original ...

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In classical rhetoric, there's a form called litotes. It comes from the Greek, meaning smooth, plain or meager. The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as "a figure of speech in which an affirmative ...

Andrew Marvell (1621–1678), heir to both the Metaphysical and the Cavalier strands that constitute the early seventeenth century in English poetry, crosses more than one path with another chameleonic ...

Since 1996, the Academy of American Poets has been designating April as National Poetry Month to celebrate “poets’ integral role in our culture” and to remind readers “that poetry matters,” according ...

(RNS) — Written by two little-known poets, both poems preach slowing down, becoming more mindful, seeking out stillness and finding connection with humankind (without touching). (RNS) — It’s a sign of ...

Born in Iowa and a longtime St. Louis resident, Van Duyn will be 81 years old this year; over the course of her career she has been honored with the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the ...

The poetry of Suryakant Tripathi "Nirala" (1899-1961), still little known outside Hindi-speaking India, is the most significant poetic achievement of modern Hindi. Nominally a Chhayavadin (roughly, ...