But on the other hand, John Ashbery described Stevens’ career in the light of this news as ‘just another example of the hypocrisy necessary to great poetry’. And Stevens himself wrote in Adagia: ‘In ...

Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a ...

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

The Grove Gallery in downtown Evanston hosted an opening April 5 for its “Inside/Out” Exhibition, focused on the idea of ...

In 'Cosmic Connections,' Charles Taylor focuses on how art, and poetry in particular, both expresses and responds to the unique human experience of “being modern.” ...

For National Poetry Month, I’ve curated a playlist of seven songs that represent poetic devices like allusion, irony and rhyme. I call it “the wordplaylist.” Prepare to be taken back to middle school ...

How to draft poetry Discover how you can draft your own poetry using examples from Wilfred Owen’s ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’.

Digging rock from hardscaped beds, I think, is a bit like not writing poetry—like thinking about writing poetry but digging ...

What’s your favorite Langston Hughes poem? Maybe it’s one you grew up with. Maybe it’s one you stumbled across in a moment of ...

Explore 8 powerful but lesser-known poems by Maya Angelou that reveal her depth, spirit, and poetic genius—perfect for discovery during National Poetry Month.

Wilson unveils the poet behind the man struggling to make, not write, poetry. Graves spurned the fashionable ‘schools’: Georgianism, modernism, imagism, everything with the suffix ‘-ism’. They denoted ...