Local poets Charif Shanahan and Terra Betts curated a reading event for Steven Leyva’s “The Opposite of Cruelty.” ...

Poetry is alive and well in Alaska, and April as Poetry Month is a great time to meet or reacquaint ourselves with three very ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free ... to find truly good poetry books. That’s why we’ve talked ...

Favorite poem: “Slow Dance” frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss This ... published on ipreferreading.com as Three Books to Read If You're Scared of Poetry.

The book, celebrated at a recent launch at the Arts & Letters Club of Toronto, is a collection of sonnets – traditionally a ...

Traditional sonnets follow a set of rules. The most common rules are: In poetry, rhythm is the beat and pace of a line of poetry. A regular rhythm has a regular beat to each line of the poem.