Most introductions, especially introductions to poetry collections, are written to be ignored. No one picks up an anthology looking forward to a terrific introduction: The whole point is the poems, ...

Introducing very young children to art and poetry can be daunting. Do you push them in strollers through museums? Read them everyone from Dr. Seuss to Shakespeare? How can it hurt? But, does it engage ...

Reading is writing, writing is reading and it's a good idea not to judge yourself with what you read. Especially poetry for young people. These are things that have helped me throughout the years. I ...

This workshop is designed to introduce you to the history of poetry today and provide a toolbox of techniques. In each workshop session, writing assignments or prompts will be provided as well as ...

In 1967, Alison Knowles and James Tenney collaborated to produce one of the first computer-based poems ever: A House of Dust. 50 years later, in 2017, poets write using neural nets. Join digital-poet ...

T.S. Eliot wrote that April is the cruelest month. It also happens to be National Poetry Month. Many schoolchildren will be admonished to pay attention to poetry these next few weeks - read, analyze, ...

Modern Poetry of Pakistan offers many offshoots of the classical tradition of Muslim poetry in India. Although Amir Khusrau (1253-1325), considered by some to be the first poet writing in a ...