Joe Coelho looks at how poetry can be performed, bringing the words to life rather than keeping them on the printed page, in ...

Jerome Rothenberg changed the course of poetics with the opening statement to his landmark "Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries From Africa, America, Asia, Europe & Oceania": "Primitive ...

In addition to searching for the meaning of poems, they can also often be described through the emotions that the reader feels while reading them. Kristiine Kikas, a doctoral student at the School of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the things you get asked most when people find out that you’re a poet is whether you can recommend something that could be ...

Both poetry and successful psychotherapy can require us to access our deepest feelings. Thus, the task of “finding the right words in the right order” unites the clinician, the patient, and the poet, ...

Who decided you had to understand a poem to enjoy it? A high school teacher? That college English professor? How many of us have excused the fact that we don’t read contemporary poetry by saying we ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Most of us have friends who love to read and are intelligent, sensitive readers but simply "don't get" poetry. It may be that they want the poem to have the kind of clear meaning ...

If you are going to shell out cash sending a kid to college, you might as well get in on their fun too. That's how my daughter's post-modern lit class slammed me into The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot. It ...