Make SFGATE a preferred source so your search results prioritize writing by actual people, not AI. Add Preferred Source Some people seem surprised by the idea that poets do any thinking at all. There ...
Every poem has structural features that have a bearing on the way the poem sounds or what it means. To comment on the structure of a poem is just the same as commenting on its language – you notice ...
From ancient Greek soapbox soliloquies to viral TikTok videos of poetry slams, spoken word has always charged language with kinetic immediacy. Encompassing a unique blend of honesty and an engaging ...
Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. As quaint and graceful as medieval guilds. Grouse feathers float away on the still lake. Summer and reeds; summer ...
It is the translation by the octogenarian Australian poet Geoffrey Lehmann of a group of poems by Rilke, by common consent ...
Where are the boundaries between adjacent literary forms? When does prose become poetry, poetry become song, song become theater? These bounds are collapsing as contemporary artists experiment. Though ...
Aficionados of the short poem gathered Monday at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York to celebrate the form at the Stephen Crane Festival of the Short Poem. You may know him for the "Red Badge of ...
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