Write a persona poem in the voice of something that doesn’t acknowledge the existence of borders: monarch butterflies, FM radio waves, rivers. Write a poem about a young person armed not with a ...

Poems which focus on human warmth, compassion and life-affirming qualities Tam O’Shanter - though apparently a moral lesson on the dangers of drink, the poem is full of the joys of conviviality ...

These poems are epitaphs but also persona poems, which are written by poets taking on another person’s point of view. Literature classes may debate whether all first-person poems should be ...

American Sublime is rich with persona poems, jazz riffs, historical narratives, sonnets, elegies and ars poeticas. A scholar of African-American literature and culture, Alexander recently published a ...