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For 20 years, teens from around the country have come to Washington, D.C. to compete in the national Poetry Out Loud finals.
Betraying Millennial Women: In “Girl on Girl,” Sophie Gilbert makes a searing case that trends from the 1990s and 2000s, ...
Today, we help you pay attention to the sound and feel of this week’s poem. Play our game to see how much you’ve already ...
Sulet Linde recently published her first book titled Dada 4 Nonsense. Dada was a movement during the previous century that turned the art world on its head. It mocked artistic and social conventions ...
J.M. Allen’s traditionally published book “Real Rhyming Poems” is available at the Rochester Public Library, some area schools and coffee shops. The Post Bulletin publishes poetry by local ...
Billionaire Warren Buffett, the Oracle of Omaha, once gave this advice to worried investors: Read a poem. But not just any poem. It had to be Rudyard Kipling’s “If” — the 1896 classic that ...
An archive has revealed a handwritten copy of a 200-year-old poem originally written to prove rhyming is easy after an argument at a breakfast table. Marking World Poetry Day, Longleat in ...
Ask yourself these questions as you go ... Think about the effects they create, and whether they add to the poem’s meaning. Recurring rhythms, rhymes or pronunciations often transform a poem ...