Alright, metrophobes, this ones for you (And no, I don’t mean those with an irrational fear of straight men with flat-irons).  Over the course of this poetry month, we’ve tried to teach you a little be bit about poe...

National Poetry Month was established by the Academy of American Poets in 1996 (Canadians are allowed in the club, too, as long as they know the secret password) The goal of the month is to highlight poetry and make it more acc...

According to novelist and short story writer Joyce Carol Oates, “poetry focuses upon the image, the particular thing, or emotion, or feeling, while prose fiction focuses upon motion through time and space.” Based on...