In 2005, the National Endowment for the Arts, together with the Poetry Foundation, established Poetry Out Loud, a program intended to encourage “the nation’s youth to learn about great poetry through ...

With just one letter difference between "Osama" and "Obama," confusing the names of the President and the United States's sworn enemy is easy if unfortunate to make. Anyone producing lots of words to ...

You can work out the rhyme scheme of a poem by labelling the words that rhyme with each other. It will help you see the pattern of the poem. For example, if a poem's first and third lines rhyme you ...

Written in the stars is the poem: “Stars above in the night, hanging there, oh so high. Look at them, they shine so bright, punching through the ink black sky.” A rhyme scheme is when we look at the ...

Kenton Chen, a senior majoring in vocal jazz and creative writing, reads a poem on the stage at Ground Zero on Tuesday. Chen is part of Professor Cecilia Woloch’s Introduction to Poetry class, which ...