F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...

Editor’s Note: Tess Taylor is the author of five collections of poetry, including “Work & Days” and “Rift Zone.” She is the editor of the anthology “Leaning Toward Light: Poems for ...

Most of the cowboy poets do write in rhyme. It’s very rare that you find anyone doing free verse among the cowboy poets. On the origins of cowboy poetry ... It started way back with the guys ...

That includes a recent poetry collection called "Today I Am a River" about imagining yourself as different things in nature (April 2023 ... jump rope rhymes! Do you remember?

"It works wonderfully. Everybody knows limericks, everybody likes meter and rhyme because it works beautifully and people remember it." In the poem, Haugen yearns for Minnesota forests, lakes and ...

"The tick has no friends. "Therefore, my story ends." Couplets are the most versatile form of rhyming poetry. Whatever your mood or your message, you can start with two lines that rhyme and add ...

This week, let’s all learn one together! Meet your poem Rhythm and rhyme Made in N.Y.C. Greet the day Keep your poem By A.O. Scott and Aliza Aufrichtig If you’re joining us in memorizing Edna ...

I felt more able to settle into my other work, which is writing, and particularly writing poems. In an often-furious world, I come to gardens and poems because in dense quick space, they reroute ...