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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Well, in that case, I won't… No, I will use, uh… Oh, forget it. Have a look. It's a worm. If you want ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Timothy Rasinski, who lives in Stow, Ohio. Tim was told he was a good writer during his master’s degree program. However, his writing is not poetry, but ...

The words tumbled out of her mouth with rhythm. She knew every word. She savored them as if enjoying a rich, delicious cheesecake, her favorite dessert. Cassandra Valadez, 18, a senior at Sunnyside ...

The 10th anniversary issue of Revelry, the literary voice of The Gwendolyn Brooks Writers Association of Florida, was celebrated this week at Tuesday Voices, an open reading forum of original poetry, ...

Literature. Ogden Nash’s poetry is sure to not only enrich your English language skills. But it will sharpen your appreciation of wit and humour in ways that make “light verse” something you can ...

What's on view in a terrifically lively show at the Getty Research Institute has gone by various names — concrete poetry is the most common, but also visual poetry, spatial poetry and imaged words, ...

Benoît de Cornulier's writings on French poetry concentrate on metrical boundaries, or caesura; however, the the criteria upon which he bases his analyses are useful in studying rhythm, or the ...