Baseball, its late commissioner Bart Giamatti once observed, is designed to break one’s heart. Indeed, the game’s most iconic poem recounts not the home team’s triumphant victory or the exhilaration ...

In Flamingos on the Roof, Calef Brown paints his quirky characters in bright jewel tones to illustrate his whimsical stanzas. In Calef Brown's quirky world for children, mosquitoes wear tuxedoes, dogs ...

A “trenta-sei” is a poetic form established by the American poet and translator John Ciardi (1916–1986). Taking its title from the Italian word for the number 36, the form consists of six six-line ...

KENT, Ohio – Nearly a decade ago, Valora Renicker, an associate professor of visual communication design at Kent State University, invited her colleague David Hassler, director of Kent State’s Wick ...

William Shakespeare is the bestselling poet of all time. The word 'poetry' is from the Greek term poiesis, which means 'making'. The oldest written poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh originating from ...

Lord Byron (1788–1824) gave five different poems the title “Stanzas for Music” — simply as a generic name by which he meant either that he heard the rhythm of a melody while he wrote the poems, or ...

Every poem has structural features that have a bearing on the way the poem sounds or what it means. To comment on the structure of a poem is just the same as commenting on its language – you notice ...

Abhay K is the author of nine poetry collections, and he seems preoccupied with geography, topography, and landscape. He was till recently the Indian Ambassador to Madagascar, but we are concerned ...