My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Timothy Rasinski, who lives in Stow, Ohio. Tim was told he was a good writer during his master’s degree program. However, his writing is not poetry, but ...

Prosody has to do with where stress falls in a poetic line. But teaching students how to unlock the rhythms of a poem had Hugh Roberts stressed out. So last year, the assistant professor of English at ...

“Music is like poetry is like Shakespeare is like me,” I wrote in my polka-dotted notebook while watching a performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5. I was on a field trip with my Humanities ...

Poetry is old. Really old. It came into use before written language, originally used as a means to remember history through verbal storytelling. That is why we often feel a rhythm or beat to a poem, ...

April is National Poetry Month—perhaps a good time to review the positive aspects of reading and writing poems. Poetry is a genre of writing in which succinct, vivid, and intense language is given to ...