The lines kept playing in my mind, like a song. I asked a few people, neighbors, street sellers, drivers, ’What are you going ...

In a poetic call-and-response across time zones and tensions, a book unearths the invisible layers of city life, writes ABHI ...

John Agard’s Checking Out Me History is an example of an open form poem but one that still has a shape and structure. It is divided into stanzas - poetic paragraphs - and includes some rhyme and ...

That could easily have served as an epigraph. But there, it would interrupt the flow from the title to the poem’s first stanza and sentence, which is: “At dinner I was seated next to him,/with ...

The opening above sets the stage for an 18-stanza poem full of despair and longing—and Poe’s characteristic eerie undertones. Want to read the full poem? Check out The Raven and Other Poems.

Today, Ada Limón, Ina Garten and Ethan Hawke will introduce you to the poem. Here’s the first of the three stanzas. Why did we pick “Recuerdo”? We combed through our shelves like Goldilocks ...

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In his opening remarks, artistic director Ryan Van Winkle described those assembled in St Andrews for this year’s StAnza poetry festival as “the best audience for poetry in the world”.