When I heard ‘Pittsburgh’ I have always thought of smoke, dirt, chimneys, steel … but of late it has become glorified, ...

Written in 1904 by German Japanese American poet Carl Sadakichi ... helped redefine modernist free-verse poetry. His short lines (unconventional at the time) and rejection of uppercase spelling ...

Where to read: You can read “The Haunted Palace” at Poetry Foundation. Poe’s The Oval Portrait is one of his shorter stories, but one whose intensity is not limited by length. The short ...

Choosing the right love poem for your boyfriend can be incredibly nerve-wracking, whether you're in a new relationship or have been together for ages. From sweet, short love poems for him to read ...

Shakespeare reading "Hamlet" to his family, circa 1600. Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences. A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 ...

and they will have a similar effect on the reader as they would if they were being used in a short story, advert or letter. Some poetic devices tend to be used more in poetry than any other type ...

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Kipnis was a leading pioneer of the Diaspora-negating Zionist narrative and one of its most active proponents, and much of his work was purposely designed to replace Diasporan poems, stories, narrativ ...

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Haunting Olivia,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2005. The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Love Letter ...

“It began with me having very outlandish ideas,” she recently recalled. “At one point, I thought we should rent a plane, and put poetry on little native seed packets that would fly out of the plane ...

In a separate case, a Berlin court in 2019 rejected a bid by Böhmermann to ban the German government from repeating Merkel's assessment that the poem was “deliberately hurtful.” Sign up for new weekly ...

Poet and activist Amanda Gorman returned to the national political stage on Aug. 21, performing her spoken-word poem "This Sacred Scene" at the Democratic National Convention. Gorman told Vanity ...