No one wants to be last in any competition. Right? Only about 20% of people are concerned about being the winner or loser.

Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write an appraisal poem.

Writer Ken Slesarik turned to poetry, both reading it and writing it, after the death of his son. He explains how poetry has ...

Writing African poetry engages critical thinking skills through analysis, interpretation, and synthesis. This artistic ...

Justin Festge Russell’s first foray into poetry was less a calling and more of an assignment, but his interest in the craft ...

A University of Virginia poetry professor says the reason might be a simple matter of taste. “We all want very different things from verse,” said Lisa Russ Spaar, a professor of English and creative ...

A University of Virginia poetry professor says the reason why might be a simple matter of taste. “We all want very different things from verse,” said Lisa Spaar, a professor of English and creative ...

Bobbie Hineline of Latrobe was strolling through the village of Saranac Lake in upstate New York, when she realized every ...

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