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This past summer, I was selected to participate in a writing workshop that used dance and movement as the prompt for writing poems. Wri...

Oscar Wilde, 1882, by Napoleon Sarony I came across this quote from Oscar Wilde: "All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling." I ...

I was reading an anthology of short poems and was paying attention not only to their brevity but to their line breaks. In Rae Armantrout’s p...

It was my birthday last weekend  I think most people are curious about with whom they share a birthday. My October 20 is shared with Mickey ...

In the early-career Wallace Stevens poem, '' Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird ,'' the reader is presented with someth...