POETRY AND FICTION.

Poetry keeps happening. Iin the United States where April is National Poetry Month. Poet Charles Bernstein thinks the celebration of poetry would be better served by an International Anti-Poetry Month. Read on for his reasoning.

Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago to a Mexican father and a Mexican-American mother, the only daughter in a family with six sons.

There are many quality online journals and websites for emerging and beginning poets to get exposure and increase their profile. Here are some of my favorites.

This article is part two in a series.

The weekend of May 16 -18, 2003. I was nestled in the heart of Barry's University( Miami, Florida) lush, tropical campus, among fellow writers and chapter members of the South Florida Writers Association.

I have a friend that fell into the "Free Poetry Scam". Don't get me wrong - he's a fantastic writer. So if he's a great writer, when his work was chosen, how is that a scam? Simple - anyone can be published in these publications... if they'll pay.

During the 1920's, America experienced a decade of extraordinary cultural creativity, much of it centered in the section of New York City known as Harlem.

This is the first of three pieces on AC writers with an indefinable "it" factor.

Ten online horror magazines waiting to scare the costume off you this Halloween...

Simple definitions of the genres and the different parts of writing.

Slam poetry has expanded the audience for poetry, but is it really poetry?

In John Keats's La Belle Dam Sans Merci the author portrays a woman who fills the narrator with love and hope and then crushes those hopes and leaves him in sorrow.

Twelve weeks of summer vacation can wreak havoc on reading, writing, phonics and language arts skills. Here is a free, easy solution. Use free printables, assemble summer phonics and reading practice activities.

Can it be possible that the bible was a story of the mortals and the immortals? The evidence that we weren't alone? If we use science the terminology of God as species of higher intelligence or immortals for those without time and space.

A look at the social and honest reflection of the British modern point of view through poetry.

A discussion of meter or the stressed and unstressed syllables that typify English poetry, with several useful illustrations

An in-depth analysis of Beat writer William S. Burroughs'impact on society throughout the 1950s. Specifically looks at the themes and social parodies in "Junky" and "Naked Lunch".

A comparison of Victorian authors and their views towards social discrimination.

With Google's new plan to change how and why websites get indexed, going back to the basics of writing may be a good idea.

Postmodernism can be thought of as a product of changes of our times. A look at postmodern poetry helps us to understand postmodernity and vice versa. Through this understanding, we gain another perspective through which to view our current time period

This is a piece of spontaneous prose I wrote one night after returning to England from Tokyo. It was the first time I'd been back after nearly two years and this was my reaction to it, mainly brought around by an old journal that I found. Adult content.

creative writing courses and workshops are an important tool for the aspiring writer. This article details the hows and whys of workshopping groups and details why you should join one.

This column discusses speculative poetry and provides samples from several well-known science and speculative fiction poets who are members of the Science Fiction Poetry Association.