This week’s guest on “Poetry from Daily Life” is Marilyn Singer, who divides her time between Brooklyn, New York and Washington, Connecticut. Marilyn has been a writer for fifty years and enjoys many ...
Human speech is rich with rhythm. As a person speaks, certain syllables are naturally emphasized, whereas others blend into the background. In this way, regular conversation becomes poetic. Language ...
The poet Andrew Weatherhead once tweeted, “The best way to read a poem is to pretend each line is the name of a horse; so the poem is just a list of horses.” This joke says something serious about ...
Last month, we asked NPR readers what poetry means to them. We received nearly 500 responses, from lifelong poetry fans to those who have only recently come to enjoy the genre. From sparking the ...
In this deeply appealing poem by the Californian Fran Claggett-Holland, from her new book, “The Consciousness of Stone” (RiskPress Foundation), reading is experienced as a supple activity, an actual ...
Millions of Americans heard 23-year-old Amanda Gorman recite her moving poem "The Hill We Climb" at President Biden's inauguration on Jan. 20. By one count, the poem has now been translated into 17 ...
*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Poetry Scores (poetryscores.blogspot.com) has been toying with a work by Missouri's poet laureate, David Clewell, translating it ...
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