Some people seem surprised by the idea that poets do any thinking at all. There is a popular image of the poet, for which much of the blame must go to the Romantic poets, as a wild, inspired ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Form is the physical structure or pattern of a poem. The main forms of poetry are open form and closed form. In ...

Desmond Elliott Prize winner Claire Adam creates the illusion of real life on the page in the story of a middle-aged Londoner searching for her adopted daughter ...

In honor of the city's bicentennial, Jacksonville poet laureate Andy Mitchell is writing a series of poems centered on the community, its people, and its past, present and future. Those poems will ...

We've got a guide on how to write a poem and 11 prompts to inspire your writing. Watch Party Newsletter What to watch Win $100 📚 Celeb news ⭐ U.S. Politics Sports Entertainment Life Money ...

The poet, like countless others precariously employed in higher education, faces yet another broke summer. In Eckes’s poem, two forms sit in direct confrontation. The unemployment form, with its ...

Writing a physics poem is not about forcing science into art but about recognising the poetry that is already there. The universe is waiting. Now, all you need to do is write.

Dionne Brand’s poem is a testament to life lived in the flickering light of spectacle and the grim shadow of war. By Dionne Brand Selected by Anne Boyer Dionne Brand’s “Inventory III ...