Do you hear a regular beat da-DUM, da-DUM? This rhythm is very common in poetry and it even has a name: it’s called iambic. Poets often choose to write in this rhythm. Rhythm can help to strengthen ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/style.53.2.0236 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/style.53.2.0236 Copy URL ABSTRACT: Poetry is formal. Rhythm and form are closely ...

Critics often treat the bibliography of a poet like a phone number, chunking the output into smaller units, marking shifts that occur over the arc of a life. There is the early work, the mature work, ...

HOUMA — For a little while each month, the erratic noise of daily life fades into the background, replaced by the rhythmic words used to express thoughts, feelings and experiences. Poetry writers and ...

This interview originally aired on Jan. 29, 2022. Lillian Allen is a groundbreaking artist in spoken word, poetry and dub. Allen is one of the leading creative Black feminist voices in Canada, a ...

FR Higgins is not the best name for a poet. The name conjures up more that of a champion snooker player than one who plays with words. But the full name he did have, Frederick Robert Higgins, suggests ...