But many professional poets have also written "lockdown poems," and several have published sequences, or whole collections, about COVID. Examples include the title sequence in The Missing Months ...

I was caught off-guard for a second, then I thought perhaps the best answer would be to simply share an example of how I got an idea and how I developed it into a poem. I picked one of my most ...

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How to draft poetry Discover how you can draft your own poetry using examples from Wilfred Owen’s ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’.

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They asked Claude to complete a poem starting ... describes how his unique mind discovered felicitous rhymes. Other examples in the research reveal more disturbing aspects of Claude’s ...

Two conversations are filling Northwind Art’s Jeanette Best Gallery now, with the opening of “Ars Poetica” and “A Closer Look ...

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Despite having only two lines, this short poem is a strong example of imagism, a movement in the early 20th century that was characterized by sharp language that created incredibly clear imagery.

The judgment was categorical. “Seventy-five years into our republic, we cannot be seen to be so shaky on our fundamentals ...

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As the pre-orders roll in for Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir Frankly, speculation continues about the title.  The publisher's blurb would have ...