When Joy Harjo speaks, she does so poetically. “We’re not trying to mean exactly here,” she says as she explains what distinguishes poetry from other types of expression. “What we are doing is trying ...

Reciting a poem or play, by synchronizing breath and heart rate to verse, has been found to reduce stress and relax the mind.

I'm going to think I'm being clever here and ask you a question similar to one you asked poet W.D. Snodgrass when you interviewed him for The American Poetry review in 1986, when you said you looked ...

Susan Conners, who speaks very slowly and communicates primarily through electronic mail, has written a poem a day for more than five years. Last year, the 41-year-old Purdue University graduate ...

Our guests discuss what makes a poem political. Our guests discuss what makes a poem political, why both outside agitators and political insiders turn to poetry to express their views, persuade the ...

Who speaks? Public intellectual activity in post-apartheid South Africa -- Writing at a 'white heat' -- 'Digter, Christen, Afrikaner' : Krog's poet subjectivity -- Self-othering : or living honourably ...

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