IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. W. B. Yeats. Description of haiku ...

This link is currently the 2nd most popular piece of Web flotsam on Reddit today. It's called "Airline Complaint." Now, a rant is not a traditional poetic form, but that doesn't mean diddlysquat. I ...

Mary Jo Bang is professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program at Washington University. Her fifth book, "Elegy," which won of the National Book Critics Circle Award, examines the ...

Culturally, poetry is used in varied ways. Haikus, for example, juxtapose images of the everyday, while lyric poetry expresses the personal and emotional. Similarly, poets themselves come in a range ...

Every poem has structural features that have a bearing on the way the poem sounds or what it means. To comment on the structure of a poem is just the same as commenting on its language – you notice ...

In lieu of a skull, Larry Jaffe (whose business card actually says “poet”) held in his outstretched hand a bird of paradise flower. “Alas, poor Yorick,” he exclaimed, and giggled. A photographer was ...

“I’ve looked at pictures, slides my parents took afterwards, and remember how gray and cold and dreary England was in comparison to the vibrant colors of Africa,” said Mark Ford. Born in Nairobi, ...