My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Alan Katz, who lives in Milford, Connecticut. Alan says, “I’ve been writing since Miss Gordon showed me the alphabet in kindergarten. But I’ve been a ...
"We added music, dance, and humor to the poetry so that the performance wasn't depressing, but instead enlightening," says ...
That ain’t been there before. Of course, poetry doesn’t have to be juvenile to be funny. Nor must it be raunchy, although a limerick might rely on bawdiness. A poem needn’t even make the reader guffaw ...
Megan Fernandes is a writer and assistant professor at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses on poetry and environmental writing. She shares her Brief But Spectacular take on ...
About 20 years ago, Will King III hovered over the sign-in list at an open mic. He scanned the stage names, realizing he didn't have one himself. So he thought up something clever on the spot: jus ...
I remember finding a signed copy of the poetry collection “Time Is a Mother” by Ocean Vuong at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, N.Y. Usually, signed books are a sign that the author has a special ...
At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for when you ...
Megan Fernandes is a writer and assistant professor at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses on poetry and environmental writing. She shares her Brief But Spectacular take on ...
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