In this week's column, author Lesléa Newman offers some advice for overcoming the anxiety that stems from struggling to start ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Marilyn Singer, who divides her time between Brooklyn, New York and Washington, Connecticut. This is Marilyn’s second column in the series. Her first ...

Aileen Cassinetto’s “Catalog of Cures in Ordinary Time” establishes that necessary urgency in the first line and maintains it ...

David L. Harrison Where do poems come from? I’m asked that question a lot. Where do you get your ideas? Where do poems come from? After my school assembly programs, I like to allow time for ...

Mason has a parade of poetry ideas and activities she’s used with her former students and that she can’t wait to tailor for her new ones. For starters, Mason likes to use poetry to supplement ...

A stanza is a group of lines within a poem. A stanza is similar to a paragraph. Just like a paragraph, they contain related information and introduce new thoughts or ideas. Poems can contain a ...

Who started the rumor that poems are autobiographical? In my poem, “They Took the Mailbox Away,” the speaker confesses that she once tossed a half-eaten ice-cream dish covered with chocolate ...

Poetry is used to evoke emotions, create imagery, and convey ideas in a highly structured and imaginative manner. It has rhythm (using two or more syllables), metre (point of emphasis), and ...