Afar o’er life’s turrets and vales does it roam ... Despite having only two lines, this short poem is a strong example of imagism, a movement in the early 20th century that was characterized ...
This is sometimes called Concrete Poetry and it is really fun to have both the meaning of the words and the visual look of ...
you can read the full 434-line poem in one of Eliot’s poetry collections—and a bleak exploration of modern life. It’s a powerful work that changes locations, speakers and time to draw upon ...
The poem, '40 Love' has been hailed on social media as both 'beautiful' and 'genius' with it's unusual layout mimicking a game of tennis ...
Poet and author Charles Ghigna shares the story of a poem he wrote after waking up to his infant son's babbling over a nursery monitor.
In Gilbert & Sullivan’s “The Pirates of Penzance,” the pirate king interrupts the action by suddenly declaring “What, we ask, ...
As an esteemed poet and a retired professor of philosophy at UW-Milwaukee, John Koethe kept those two worlds separate. “I ...