Poetry might seem intimidating to study at first, but it’s like any other kind of writing that we analyse – it uses language and other techniques to create an effect for the reader and convey ...

The best-written poems capture emotions, experiences, or images using a lyrical language. But what exactly is a poem, how is it different from prose, and how should we approach it?

Writer Matt Hoisch, who has spent nearly a year interviewing poets for a project, describes the public good that comes from writing about a community.

This is what sign language poetry, a genre rooted in the sign language tradition, looks like: a feast for the eyes. transcript At night, the moon rose in the window. Its light touched the pane and ...

The researchers used five poems each from ten English-language poets, spanning nearly 700 years of literature in English. The writers included Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Samuel Butler ...

Why did we as a species love poetry from the very beginning? And it's the sounds of language. And I think she's trying to get us back to that. "If you're a broad reader, this is a collection ...