Katie Kemple fell in love with poetry as a child, when her father first read to her T.S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of ...

Poems rhyme some of the time; oftentimes they don’t. But what distinguishes a poem from other herds of words is how a poem combines rhythm and precision to make meaning and move us: capturing a moment ...

T.S. Eliot famously observed in his great poem, “The Four Quartets,” that April is the cruelest month. Economists quote this line every year during the first two weeks of that month when referencing ...

When you fall in love, you sort of losing all rationality. So, you have to really think when it comes to writing poetry. Whether you're in a relationship or you're hoping to be in one with someone in ...

In 2005, at the age of 24, William Horsted had his first poem published, in The Spectator. He still has a copy of the ...

If “a grain of poetry suffices to season a century," as the poet José Martí once wrote, then what would a bit of poetry do for the average student and the few years we spend in college? I write poetry ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. There are innumerable blogs dedicated to posting prose and poetry ...

Iris Murdoch, the formidable Irish and British novelist and philosopher, died in 1999. Since then, the Murdoch industry has churned. We’ve had three memoirs about her from her husband, John Bayley ...