“Thought begins in disagreement, the terms of which demand to be articulated.” Robert Hass’s “A Little Book on Form: An Exploration Into the Formal Imagination of Poetry” is full of pithy, eloquently ...

“Open Form in American Poetry: Essays” by Burton Hatlen; University of Maine Press, Orono, Maine, 2021; 309 pages, hardcover, $35. In cultures with deep traditions of respect for learning, such as in ...

Editor’s intro: Today, Bertha Rogers, teaching artist with Teachers & Writers Collaborative, shares how poetry can teach the world and make students feel at home in it. She also shares tips and ...

James Matthew Wilson is an award-winning professor of religion and literature at Villanova University and the author of two poetry collections, Some Permanent Things (2014) and The Hanging God (2018).

The form of a poem is how we describe the overarching structure or pattern of the poem. Some forms of poetry must stick to very specific rules about length, rhythm and rhyme. Poets enjoy playing with ...

For centuries, Pashtun women have traded stories, feelings and life wisdom in the form of two-line oral poems called landays. Eliza Griswold, a journalist and poet herself, traveled to Afghanistan to ...

COMPRESSION is one pole of Japanese poetry; the other is richness of imagery and language. Because the imagery is traditional, the poet need only suggest in brief strokes. Because the poems are short, ...

During the pandemic lockdown, Yale’s Ayesha Ramachandran tried an experiment in poetry consumption. Ramachandran, an associate professor of comparative literature, bought stacks of books of ...