Every poem has structural features that have a bearing on the way the poem sounds or what it means. To comment on the structure of a poem is just the same as commenting on its language – you notice ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

A new University of Miami study has linked red tides to ocean dead zones. New research documenting a grim connection between toxic red tides and ocean dead zones comes with an usual annotation: a poem ...