I have met so many good people of Petersburg, and I love the great possibilities that the city has on the horizon' ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

To introduce students to close reading poetry and using writing to understand reading; to prepare them to write a 4-6 page essay on a single poem Students have read selected poems and the chapter on ...

Poetry is often associated only with sentimental, rhyming couplets, but the literary form is so much more than this cliché and dull stereotype. If you explore it properly, poetry is so much more.

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

Poetry can be a wonderful way to express your emotions. When you are angry, you can write an angry poem. When you’re happy, you can write a happy poem. When I’ve had sad times, I’ve written ...

One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — the Mona Lisa is the story of a woman’s smile; the ceiling of the Sistine ...