In this 60-second speech at the University of Pennsylvania, poet Charles Bernstein waits until the last beat of time to reveal what he believes poetry's secret ingredient to be. Basically ...

The more a poem evokes vivid sensory imagery, the more we like it. A new study by New York University and the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics shows that vivid pictorial language has ...

Source: https://pixabay.com/en/poetry-poetry-album-old-saying-798018/ "Musicians must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he's to be ultimately at ...

You might call poetic intelligence the secret at the end of the poem, which helps us dive into our subconscious and articulate images and thoughts, accurately and meticulously, using knowledge ...

Yet today’s Poem of the Day gives us a coy speaker whose heart has gone ... a kind of emotional striptease. I have a secret, she says, but I won’t tell you. Or maybe I don’t have a secret at all. Or ...

April is Poetry Month, a painful reminder for some, who suffered under English teachers who made them write about the cherry tree wearing white for Eastertide or “The Love Song of J. Alfred ...

In teaching us about our heritage, my grandmother made the world-historical figures of the Soviet regime seem like footnotes in the nobler history of Russian poetry, if not outright objects of ...

He is now retired. The Post Bulletin publishes poetry by local and area writers every Tuesday. Send poems to [email protected] with the subject line "Poetry submission." ...

The worst thing? Being asked, in a rude and aggressive way, “What’s the secret of getting your poems published?” This has ...