John Agard’s Checking Out Me History is an example of an open form poem but one that still has a shape and structure. It is divided into stanzas - poetic paragraphs - and includes some rhyme and ...

Much of this book deals with the ways the poetry of rap communicate black hip hop culture, and how rap allowed for the prioritization of the black voice. In one example, Pate explains how a Common ...

We caught up with Shapiro to learn more about her work, writing in her 80s, and the intersection of psychology and poetry. The following interview was slightly edited and condensed for publication.

The year 1947, when Richard Wilbur, who died on Saturday, at ninety-six, published his first collection, also gave us Cleanth Brooks’s “The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry ...

Chicago Review is a student-run magazine of literature and critical exchange, published quarterly in the Division of the Humanities at the University of Chicago since 1946. CR regularly features ...