Poetry in Motion A pair of picture books pays rhyming tribute to shapes and patriotism. Readers can enjoy concrete poems organized by season in Come to My Party: And Other Shape Poems by Heidi Roemer, ...

Amanda Gorman’s latest poetry collection pierces the pandemic’s silence and isolation, speaking to our collective grief in a confounding historical moment. We began to lose words As trees forget their ...

They are written to a precise syllabic count. It begins with a line of nine syllables and then moves progressively down to the middle line of one syllable and then moves back to nine, structurally the ...

Today Múinteoir Clíona told us all about calligrams, also known as "shape poems". A calligram is a poem in which the formation of the letters or the font selected, represents an aspect of the poem's ...

“I have a pain in our teeth…” says Sister Mary Anthony in Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s J’ai Mal Á Nos Dents quarter way through her Collected Poems – not just one nun’s community mindset, but also a ...

Like satin, the syllables slip off of structured stanzas, stumbling then settling into the softened recesses of my heart. I swallow, and then this art, this poem, plummets, like stone, like a cherry ...

TWO volumes representing his life's work are as moving a testament to Michael Donaghy's anarchic wit and genius as the tributes that greeted his early death, writes his editor and friend Don Paterson ...

BLUFFTON — Eloisa Amezcua, poet and founder of Costura Creative, will present the forum “The Shape of a Poem” at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 12, Yoder Recital Hall, 1 University Drive, Bluffton. It is free ...

Every poem has structural features that have a bearing on the way the poem sounds or what it means. To comment on the structure of a poem is just the same as commenting on its language – you notice ...