Poets Online - the blog

M.C. Escher's Drawing Hands This is a follow-up to our current call for submissions prompt about using paradox and negation in poetry. ...

Magritte's negative tells us that this is not a pipe. It's a painting. A paradox is a statement that seems self-contradictory or ab...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, on February 27, 1807. He entered Bowdoin College at the age of 15, and one of his cl...

I have sometimes thought of children's books, especially the very simple board books of those pre-reading years, as sounding and sometim...

I came upon an article on Substack, " Uncurated: The Case for a New Term of Art " by Timothy Green. Tim has worked as editor of Ra...