The family of the beloved children's poet has released Every Thing On It, a collection of playful, previously unpublished poems and drawings. "I... Shel Silverstein's Poems Live On In 'Every Thing' ...

Joe Coelho looks at how poetry can be performed, bringing the words to life rather than keeping them on the printed page, in ...

the first time the knife starts to slip. first thing, or too ready to begin. Then it’s on to ordinary work. Paul Hunter is a poet, musician, instrument-maker, teacher, and editor and publisher. For ...

Although poet Mohamed Tall’s ‘Do The Right Thing’ isn’t from this year, it has, over the past year or so, become a powerful protest poem (think of it as our own ‘Alright’) and perhaps the most ...

Caleb Cano is a student at RCTC taking a creative writing class. He was asked to write a poem based on his childhood.

Jive Poetic gives his Brief But Spectacular take on expressing himself through poetry. Growing up, rule number one was to always know when it was time to go home before it got too late; vigilance and ...

Dimeter (lines with just two stresses) are hard to get right in English verse. Let a weak line slip in, and the listener’s sense of the meter breaks down. Let too many strong ba-boom-ba-boom lines ...

Barbara Buckman Strasko sounds surprised by the notion that people who thrive in Lancaster's downtown community are "a dying breed." "It's the new breed," she said. "This city is up and coming." ...

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