Literary critic Foster (How to Read Literature Like a Professor) explicates the fundamentals of reading and understanding poetry in this accessible guide designed for the lay audience. He addresses ...
Poetry can be a source of distraction, of beauty, of truth. It can guide us when it gets difficult to manage the intensity of what we're feeling. So it's no surprise that people sought out poetry for ...
April is National Poetry Month. And if poetry isn't your thing, don't worry. A lot of people are with you on that. But if you want to give poetry a shot and it just seems too dense or hard to ...
Andrew McMillan does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By David Orr RHYME’S ROOMS The Architecture of Poetry By Brad Leithauser If you write about poetry, ...
on the rim of darkness. Even more ancient than Horace is the concept of ekphrasis, the poetic description of a work of visual art: painting, sculpture, architecture. In other words, ekphrasis is a ...
Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Ada Limón is officially the United States's 24th poet laureate. When she ...
In her foundational 1977 essay, “Poetry Is Not a Luxury,” the Black feminist writer Audre Lorde argued that the art form transcends the constraints of the written word. Poetry doesn’t just reflect the ...
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