Debuting his column, “Californian Revelations,” Azzam Shafi '28 explores universal themes in poetry from different cultures, reflecting on love in poetry for this first installment.

St. Joseph High School juniors in English teacher Alicia Yrle’s class recently wrote extended metaphor poems as part of an assignment related to the poem “Huswifery “ by Edward Taylor. It compares the ...

When asked to describe her poetry, Jean Prokott said, “It's a loaded question for sure, one that poets are always trying to ...

Song Lin’s poem, translated by Dong Li, primarily uses interesting images to articulate the feelings of a “divided self” and a sense of being everywhere and nowhere at once. The poet left China in the ...

This post is part 2 of a series. To see the first entry, click here. In my last post, we discussed how literature can force you to become aware of and understand specific things. We considered how ...

My husband and I were having a discussion with some friends last night about how writers write in the world as it is right now. Not really how we write, I said, because we’re like birds that would ...

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 ...