Learn how to perform triage on poems that just don't "click." Poems that have lurked about in notebooks, computers, and on scraps of paper in your desk drawer because there's still "something" there.

The sublime use of language can be best met in poetry which holds an intrinsic kinship with aesthetics. Poets play with words delicately to create poetic essences and readers extract some sense from ...

Poems are made for the express purpose of re-figuring the world. They have no other reason for being. In them, metaphors are completely at home. In poems, metaphors subtly materialize or dynamically ...

Poetry is often described as a conversation—with the self, the world, and the work of other writers. In this introductory course, you'll gain the tools you need to enter the conversation through a ...

In answer to the question “Does poetry play a role in social change?,” Adrienne Rich once answered: Yes, where poetry is liberative language, connecting the fragments within us, connecting us to ...

Since the first translation of the Bhagavad Gita in 1789 by Charles Wilkins, there have been hundreds of translations into English. Some have translated the poetry of the Gita into prose, and some ...

At this stage in your Leaving Cert preparation you will have covered a range of poetic techniques and have studied several poets writing in a variety of different styles. The best preparation you can ...

One evening this fall, Pádraig Ó Tuama, an Irish poet who lives in Belfast, entered a Bloomsbury bookshop several blocks from one of Virginia Woolf’s former homes. Ó Tuama, who is forty-seven and has ...