Nature Poetry

It is important for both art and poetry classes to emphasize the connection between art and poetry. Some award-winning art and poetry class projects and lesson plans that accomplish this are detailed.

Allison Joseph is an African-American poet of Caribbean descent who has gained national acclaim and inspires students at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. This is an article based on an email interview with the poet.

The poet e.e.cummings says spring is 'when the world is puddle-wonderful'. April is National Poetry Month and Earth Day. Combine the wonder of spring with the joy of poetry. Write green mosaic poetry and explore life science.

April is National Poetry Month. Poetry is the perfect venue to express the joy of spring. And spring it the ideal subject for poems! Get the young and old outside to explore, enjoy and write!

Love poets have the ability to bring change into the world. Love poetry can help to heal the hearts, minds and lives of others.

Due to the developed economy and frequent culture intercommunion with many foreign countries, the civilization of Tang Dynasty was on the top status in the world.

This essay will discuss the following works, paying particular attention to form, content, symmetry, harmony, beauty, time and space as displayed in Polynesian poetry, specifically of Tongan and Hawaiian origins.

A list of various kinds of poetry.

More so than any strict adherence to a code of conduct though, the influence of individual morality and the personal relationship with God molded the creation of the female political identity.

An appreciation of the poems of Vezhavendhan

George Herbert and Henry Vaughan are two poets whose styles can be seen as remarkably different and yet still similar. It is said by some that Herbert is the stronger of the two, but by others Vaughan is said to be stronger and Herbert weaker.

In this article I explain why Gerard Manley Hokins's "God's Grandeur" is one of the best poems in the English language and how he crafted such a fine work of art.

There are authors and poets everyone must read.

Thoughts on Whitman and his poetic forms.

Pauline offers a confused and unstable relationship between the poet as a masculine persona and the feminine principle, as embodied by the ever-present, ever-listening, and ever-comforting Pauline.

Poetry has lost it's appeal in the past few centuries. Rekindle that love for poems.

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

Two Snowy Evenings and two very different interpretations by the same poet.

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.

The poet describes her work on February 19, 2009. Some edits have been made, such as the tentative title of her second collection has been changed to reflect the current, still tentative title

Even if you are not a poet, you can still use simple techniques in order to develop the inspiration you need to create a poem.

Find out about George Oppen and the poetic style he adapted that made him a unique poet in a movement called Objectivism by Louis Zukofsky demonstrated through the analysis of several representative works by Oppen.

A poem for summer.

Find out about the Sestina's history, its specific form details and some slight variations, and its more modern styling. Then find out what kind of Sestina poet you might be.

This is a poem about the return of the poet.

There are nature poets, feminist poets, poets whose life has been riddled with tragedy, despair and loss. Ruth Stone embodies all of the above.