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

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

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

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

including additional rhyme patterns (such as couplets) and metric lines (such as iambic tetrameter). I started writing in a precise meter (as is commonly found in classical poetry), but it slowed ...

So, when the travelling Arsenal fans burst into a chorus of ‘we want the Glazers in’, the essence of football culture was ...