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There are planets out tonight that are being mistaken as stars! Can you believe that? Planets as stars. Gina Cornejo spits ...

There are poems that express fragile sensitivity, poems that strive for cosmic profundity, poems that offer up idyllic perspectives on life that we would all be wise to emulate. But chances are, those ...

Opium Magazine‘s Literary Death Match evokes images of bloody pencils, torn up books, and trashed typewriters. But LDM is less like a poetry MMA battle, and more like an interactive reading involving ...

Guest columnist Gianna Somrak, native to Highland Heights, was a psychology and creative writing double major who graduated from Baldwin Wallace University this past December. After considering her ...

All hail National Poetry Month, in which we are allowed — encouraged, even — to revel in words laid one by one without the usual constraints of punctuation or the so-called rational sequencing of ...

Though I read everything from memoirs to romantasy, there is one genre in particular that haunted me for a long time: poetry. In my sophomore year of college, I took a creative writing class and was ...

Homer wrote about the Trojan War; Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Crimean War; Walt Whitman, the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War I. Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and ...

The invention of close reading. By transforming quotations into evidence, close reading served as way to turn postwar criticism into a specialized knowledge. But what if we treated it more as an art ...