World Poetry Day is observed annually on March 21 to pay tribute to poets. It also aims to promote the reading, writing, and ...

Loyola's Social Justice Week invited poet Shivani Gupta to instruct using the power of the pen to combat injustice.

What I love about poetry is that you can perform it anywhere. There are performances spaces all around us. In the bedroom. In the playground. I ….was…. at…. the ...

How do you make the 10,000th kiss romantic and new? As much as we may want—or need—to write a love poem, it’s often difficult to find a language that adequately expresses the way we feel.

Breaking the poem into two separate events helps to increase the drama. The final word on each line within a stanza rhymes: hands/lands/stands and crawls/walls/falls. A rhyme scheme of AAA BBB.

Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks ... longer than the shortest popular poem, a single letter m with an extra ...

This poem is also the opposite of everything I ... words at the end of the lines don’t quite match, and those near rhymes may be an omen of trouble to come. But there are letter-perfect ...

The importance of sounds and rhymes in changing the feeling of a poem. Oliver defines several sound devices and gives examples: Alliteration, assonance, and onomatopoeia, to name a few.