If we’re being honest here, a true starter pack of modern American poetry would look something like this: “Goodnight Moon,” “Where the Sidewalk Ends,” “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.” For many of us poetry ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April ... whose final verse declares, “I’d rather smell of musty, green stench / than of sweet, fragrant lilac. / If I could stand alone, strong and free, / I’d rather ...

In Unmet (Biblioasis, 124 pages, $22), stephanie roberts uses surrealism and ekphrastic poems to explore the way one’s ...

He talks a lot about the world of his films as 'his dollhouse' – a term he uses not just to mean the set, but the small ...

The Poetry Machine is an old capsule machine, similar to those at convenience stores, where a quarter or two would release a ...

Almir Agić, a 22-year-old Roma man from Ilijaš, near Sarajevo, fights prejudice with poetry and art, giving a voice to those ...

So, it probably comes as no surprise that Armenti ... repeated rhyme scheme and grouped as verse/chorus/bridge, etc. The poems in the book are mostly free verse. In song, I like narratives ...

The Quiet Geometry of Chaos is a collection of free-verse poems where the ... there’s a poem describing it all. “I like to think that my poetry is also a form of activism instead of just ...

There’s really no better way for her to capture that than with free verse.” Endashaw said it is important for her to find poetry that resonates with her readers. Many of the verses reflect the ...

A former leading IRA man says he has discovered a new way of dealing with the horrors of the past — by writing “conflict ...