Make SFGATE a preferred source so your search results prioritize writing by actual people, not AI. Add Preferred Source Some people seem surprised by the idea that poets do any thinking at all. There ...
Where are the boundaries between adjacent literary forms? When does prose become poetry, poetry become song, song become theater? These bounds are collapsing as contemporary artists experiment. Though ...
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 ...
A form called the Golden Shovel honors the poet Gwendolyn Brooks, and you just need a newspaper to get started. By Leah Umansky Celebration and honor are two touchstones of the poetic tradition. With ...
“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, ...
Ian Hamilton Finlay, interior of “4 Sails” (1966) (image courtesy of the Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay) Tug, fug, chug, glug — such are the rhyming words used by the writer and artist Ian Hamilton ...
So far during the course of Poetry from Daily Life we’ve heard about a number of ways in which poets find inspiration for their poems. Taking a walk. Observing. Starting with a single word. Choosing a ...
Hundreds of writing workshops into my long career, I'm still amazed by one particular phenomenon: Whenever I give a single writing prompt to a group of people — of any age! — they will always come up ...
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