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The Key to Everything,” by Margaret A. Brucia, is the first biography of May Swenson, a poet who fashioned her own unique ...
Mary Margaret Hughes, who got her start in classrooms and on stages in Springfield, writes about how creativity and inspiration can snowball.
How memorizing poetry can expand your life I was always a reluctant reader of poetry, but memorizing a poem every week gave me a new understanding of myself.
Here's how to help the poemless: go to the poetry shelves in the children’s section of your local library. Grab a book by David Harrison, or Marilyn Singer, or Charles Waters, or Eric Ode, or one of ...
Some poems are long and densely packed with meaning, but others are like snapshots written to save an image, idea or scene, writes David L. Harrison.
My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Alan Katz, who lives in Milford, Connecticut. Alan says, “I’ve been writing since Miss Gordon showed me the alphabet in kindergarten. But I’ve ...
More than 100 modest and intimately scaled artworks in Still Life and the Poetry of Place provide glimpses into interiors, both humble and opulent.
The poem goes on to refer to ideas and thoughts transmuted into structures, and contrasts architecture as a celebration of life, art and existence with more ambivalent complexities ...
Where do poems come from? I’m asked that question a lot. Where do you get your ideas? Where do poems come from? After my school assembly programs, I like to allow time for students and teachers ...
I won’t promise you that memorizing poetry will make your life better, but it will make you more: more in touch with language, with other minds, maybe with what you might yet become.