Korea JoongAng Daily on MSN

Traditional Korean poetry 'Afterimage' is first by foreigner to be translated into Japanese, English

Akio Nakagawa, a professor of contemporary culture at Shokei University in Japan, recently published a collection of sijo poems titled “Afterimage.” Sijo is a traditional Korean poetic form comprising ...
The New York Times

In a Poem, Just Who Is ‘the Speaker,’ Anyway?

Critics and readers love the term, but it can be awfully slippery to pin down. That’s what makes it so fun to try. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most ...
Edutopia

A Poetry-Writing Exercise to Support English Learners

In this lesson, high school students write ‘I am’ poems in their home language and then translate them into English, building ...
NPR Illinois

Illinois Poet Laureate on how poetry thrives again because its more than dead poets

Springfield Area Arts Council organizes the Poetry Out Loud Contest annually. Mark Turcotte, the Illinois Poet Laureate, visits to share how poetry is thriving because it's more than dead poets.
The Paris Review

Making of a Poem: Monzer Masri and Robyn Creswell on “A Palestinian, a Sudanese, and the third was a Moroccan”

What I know is that I don’t want it to be poetic. The time has passed when my poetry was poetic—if in fact my poetry was ever poetic. My fate has always been to do something different.” ...
NPR

Poetry Moment

Presented by Spokane Public Radio, Poetry Moment is a program that showcases myriad poems as read by poets and poetry lovers from across the Inland Northwest — and occasionally beyond.Poetry Moment ...
NPR

As National Poetry Month comes to a close, 2 new retrospectives to savor

With National Poetry Month comes spring flowers and some of the year's biggest poetry publications. And as April wraps up, we wanted to bring you two of our favorites — retrospective collections from ...
Forbes

25 Famous Poems That Everyone Should Read

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...
WIBW on MSN

Mother Song poetry event embraces mother, daughter experiences

MotherSong, a poem play performance by Annette Billings and Dr. Jennifer Gordon, is 2 p.m. Sunday, March 15 at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library.
Hyperallergic

What Is Code Poetry?

Code poetry is built on a simple premise: it is a single text that reads as poetry and executes as code. The new collection ./code –– poetry, published by Broken Sleep Books, brings a programmer and ...
The New York Times

Find Poetry in the Pages of a Newspaper

The hardest part about writing poetry is choosing the right words. Use a paper or magazine as raw material to get over the first hurdle. By Leah Umansky These days, people are turning to art or poetry ...