Poems, poets, forms, close reading, and literary essays.
A guide to Language poetry through Lyn Hejinian, Charles Bernstein, Ron Silliman, Rae Armantrout, Barrett Watten, the New Sentence, little magazines, reader participation, and experimental American poetics.
A guide to immigrant poetry in the United States through migration, bilingual and multilingual writing, family memory, exile, citizenship, translation, and poets including Li-Young Lee, Richard Blanco, Ocean Vuong, and Ilya Kaminsky.
A guide to feminist poetry through Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Muriel Rukeyser, political lyric, sexuality, gender, formal experiment, and contemporary feminist poetics.
A guide to African American poetry from Phillis Wheatley and Paul Laurence Dunbar through the Harlem Renaissance, Gwendolyn Brooks, the Black Arts Movement, Audre Lorde, June Jordan, and contemporary poets.
A guide to Native American poetry, Indigenous literary traditions, major poets, oral and written forms, sovereignty, language, land, history, and contemporary practice.
In his satirical poem “A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed” Swift stages a surgical expose of cosmetic artifice through Corinna’s nightly rehearsal. He charts …
The transformation of Katherine in ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ from an assertive and outspoken woman to a subdued wife is often presented as a …
Diversity is the spice of life, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the world of poetry. As a vibrant tapestry of thoughts, emotions, …
In the labyrinthine corridors of human creativity, poetry stands as a testament to our deepest emotions, thoughts, and experiences. It’s a divine play of words, …
The Romantic period, spanning the late 18th to the early 19th century, was a reaction against the industrial and societal shifts of the time. The …
Poetic devices are tropes, figures of speech, and other literary techniques used by poets and playwrights to create unique effects in their works. In this …
Sound devices in poetry are one of the artistic means for creating images. Sound devices appeal to the reader’s audial imagination, making poems more real …
