Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a short poem.

Poetry gives voice to those who find it hard to concoct emotional speeches. As readers, we also feel attached to those ...

Shakespeare reading "Hamlet" to his family, circa 1600. Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences. A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 ...

He was dishonest, smelly and short. Not your type at all. Get over him. The rebuttal in the poem’s last line can be taken in a similarly literal spirit: Of course we don’t mean we love Keats ...

"The Slowdown" offers a poem and a moment of reflection in short episodes, each weekday. In this episode, host Major Jackson, reads "Chaos Theory" by Clint Smith. Major writes... "Occasionally ...