The form of a poem is how we describe the overarching structure or pattern of the poem. Some forms of poetry must stick to very specific rules about length, rhythm and rhyme. Poets enjoy playing with ...

April is National Poetry Month and a good time to consider beginning a poetry writing practice for yourself and/or your ...

With schools on the verge of opening soon, I'm getting into the didactic spirit too. For poets and for devotees of poetry, here are 17 assumptions about poetry and poetic form that I keep in mind when ...

The poet, like countless others precariously employed in higher education, faces yet another broke summer. In Eckes’s poem, two forms sit in direct confrontation. The unemployment form, with its ...