“I never got poetry,” someone says to me again. And I sigh. Because I never got it either — at least, not until I learned to stop worrying about “getting it.” In fact, “get” — with its connotation of ...
This is the third in a monthly series by Dave Lucas, the Poet Laureate of the State of Ohio. You can read the September Installment, (No. 1), here; and the October ...
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More than words: How poetry marks life’s most important moments
When Cyprus Mail published “A poem for Cyprus” in honor of Independence Day, it underscored something many on the island instinctively understand: poetry is not confined to classrooms or literary ...
Poems will mix multiple languages in “The Latin Poet’s Guide to the Cosmos.” Susannah Rodríguez Drissi, a UCLA lecturer in Writing Programs, published her book in May. The book is a collection of 26 ...
A former editor introduced me to the Poetry Foundation‘s Poem of the Day. His parents were poets—not amateurs who scribbled doggerel on birthday cards, but professionals who published books and taught ...
WINTER HAVEN - Maya Angelou is an American brand with an identity as well established as those of Coca-Cola, Levi Strauss & Co. or Starbucks. But Angelou, a poet, dramatist and professor, is capable ...
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