After each stunning, idiosyncratic, vibrant, haunting, or hilarious page is made, we will gather them into a new collection of poetry and art that could only have been made by our community. This is a ...

What makes a good self-help book? The excellent book mentioned here is Philippa Perry’s The Book You Want Everyone You Love to Read. Rebecca Watson’s column also contains mention of Cate Blanchett’s ...

Indiana author Rebecca Kai Dotlich writes about how a childhood spent collecting lyrics and words sparked her love of poetry.

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William Shakespeare is the bestselling poet of all time. The word 'poetry' is from the Greek term poiesis, which means 'making'. The oldest written poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh originating from ...

Some narrative poems also contain repetition to add rhythm and make it more predictable. Narrative means story. So a narrative poem is a poem that tells a story. There is often no narrative in ...

But for Ian McDonald anything can make a poem, as he transforms into poetry every chance encounter, any plain object, each forest evening of blazing colour disappearing into night, the sight of a ...