April is National Poetry Month, so in honor of that I will offer some thoughts about springtime poems. The first to come to ...

Physics and poetry both distil complexity into clarity. Learn how poetic structure can shape and express scientific ideas.

At the very least, these are things Mary Ellen Solt wonders about in almost every line of verse she writes—and they are also the subject of those lines, quoted above, which belong to Carl Sandburg, ...

I remember just being astonished by the representations of the gods. The omnipresence of the gods in the world of the Iliad, ...

In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “ wild reciter ...

BYU professor of English Lance Larsen has been writing poetry for four decades. His poems are regularly published in leading ...

Physics and poetry might seem like an unlikely pair, but both are rooted in structure, rhythm and precision. Both rely on clarity - distilling complex ...

In reviews, we read Pico Iyer’s new book, Amitav Ghosh’s book of essays, the graphic makeover of C.S. Chellappa’s 1949 ...

The book, celebrated at a recent launch at the Arts & Letters Club of Toronto, is a collection of sonnets – traditionally a ...

Once again spearheading and editing the Writes of Spring project is Winnipeg poet/author (and Free Press copy editor) Ariel Gordon, who will be joined this year by Plume Winnipeg’s Charlene Diehl as ...

In an interview with SheThePeople, Marilyn Hacker and Karthika Nair reflect on the role of poetry in times of crisis, the ...

As an English and creative writing professor at UAA for nearly 25 years, Sexton spurred young writers to chase opportunity ...