Poetry is great but everyone thinks it has to rhyme. Well I’m here to tell you it does not. In fact, at times, Rhyme can get annoying. It creeps into your head And that can get boring.

The job of a poet laureate is to engage Illinoisans in poetry, with each poet laureate given a small stipend to enact that ...

Loyola's Social Justice Week invited poet Shivani Gupta to instruct using the power of the pen to combat injustice.

Poetry is usually short, and the rhythm and rhyme embedded in poetry for children make poems easy to learn to read. Even ...

Let’s call it a draw? Okay, that’s fine. When words have similar sounds, we often say they rhyme. Poetry and songs often use rhyme, because it sounds good and because the repetition of sounds ...

Indiana author Rebecca Kai Dotlich writes about how a childhood spent collecting lyrics and words sparked her love of poetry.

I often hear from peers and students that poetry is intimidating, but poetry is actually one of the purest forms of expression. Every single word, even syllable, matters in a poem, capturing the ...

or abrupt changes in rhyme patterns. Take note of how the poem’s content and form reflect one another. As you read more traditional poems, you’ll also notice many classic poetry forms present ...

“I think that hip hop has the most sophisticated use of rhyme of any genre and when written down and it reads just like poetry. For example the London-based hip-hop artist Akala writes a lot about ...