Poetry might seem intimidating to study at first, but it’s like any other kind of writing that we analyse – it uses language and other techniques to create an effect for the reader and convey ...

Bookshop owner, publisher and writer Conner Bouchard-Roberts is halfway through his appointment as Port Townsend’s first poet ...

Writer Matt Hoisch, who has spent nearly a year interviewing poets for a project, describes the public good that comes from ...

The best-written poems capture emotions, experiences, or images using a lyrical language. But what exactly is a poem, how is it different from prose, and how should we approach it?

This is what sign language poetry, a genre rooted in the sign language tradition, looks like: a feast for the eyes. transcript At night, the moon rose in the window. Its light touched the pane and ...

I’m pretty sure Ruby designed that bit to mimic the denatured feel of programming language. It doesn’t matter if I follow every word. Not all poetry wants to achieve the same things ...

Their styles are distinct; their storytelling is too. The English language is a battlefield in Diaz's poetry. It is where she goes to wring sense from her existence as a Mojave-speaking Akimel O ...

Q. In what ways do you think your work is relevant to the times we live in? Poetry is the living word. It is documentation of reality, as well as abstractions that invite fantasy. I believe the most ...

Still, in contrast to a century ago, or even thirty years ago, our language and poetry have been reduced to abbreviations and line breaks. Has poetry lost its shine and luster, turned into jargon ...