Every poem has structural features that have a bearing on the way the poem sounds or what it means. To comment on the structure of a poem is just the same as commenting on its language – you notice ...

Poetry has been labeled a dying art for almost as long as it has existed: It’s not what it used to be, and nobody reads it. Shakespeare’s contemporaries wondered if English could ever equal Latin.

His hen could swim and his pig could fly. I answered him as I thought best, "They were both born in a cuckoo's nest." The man in the wilderness asked me to tell All the sands in the sea and I counted ...

Eleven sijo (traditional poems) will be sent to the moon on a rocket set for blastoff on Jan. 15 carrying a private U.S. lunar lander. The Sejong Cultural Society, a Korean-American non-profit ...

Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, have teamed up with a star-studded cast of British actors to recite the festive poem "Twas the Night Before Christmas." The members of the ...

There's a beautiful piece of prose in a Thai poem that reads: "Kavee rue lang laeng Siam" -- (Siam never runs out of poets). Composed over 120 years ago by Prince Paramanuchit Chinoros, the verse is ...