As a visiting poet in Maryland’s schools, I work with hundreds of students every year. I am often surprised by how powerfully poetry workshops affect emerging writers. Once, I was “in residence” with ...

Davis (Tina) intersperses long lists of fake band names with more traditionally structured poems about humankind’s foibles in his charmingly skewed fourth collection. The band names include such ...

In a poem, a writer uses language, form and structure to present an idea in a new way; the words on the page become a way to communicate between the poet’s mind and the reader's. When reading poetry a ...

Time to rhyme, or how to know it when you want to be a poet... During lockdown, so many of us rediscovered the restorative power of a damn good poem. But is it an art that’s hard to master? Inaugural ...