ALAMEDA — In a room filled with tears, shouts, laughter, and applause, Island High School students performed poems they had written about subjects ranging from alienation, regret, and love to racism, ...

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Students in Colleen Driscoll's AP Literature class at Kingsford High School practiced analyzing poems by drawing both the ...

Bahr is Arabic for “sea” but means “meter” when applied to poetry. Zeina Hashem Beck weaves poems of deep longing that feel like whole worlds. This ghazal, a traditional Middle Eastern/Persian/Indian ...

BERLIN – The publication last week of Günter Grass’s poem in German and Italian dailies, which called Israel the primary impediment to world peace, has triggered a national debate in Germany. In the ...

The very first poem Jon Davis ever wrote was an imitation of “The Emperor of Ice-Cream” by Wallace Stevens, which is famously difficult to analyze for meaning, though people try. A lifetime later, ...