Poetry is a form of writing designed to evoke emotions as you read aloud or to yourself. That sounds very complicated. Where do you start with that? How about subject? All poems need to be about ...

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Was it art? No. But poetry doesn’t need to be art all the time. It doesn’t have to be serious, or beautiful, or ...

"All That We Ask of You Is To Always Be Happy," Durham poet Bridget Bell's debut collection, comes out on February 4.

And there are some poems that don't seem to end at all, they just seem to hover menacingly in the air. TESTAMENT: Okay let's talk about tense. So often when we're looking at poems sometimes ...

“A poem is best read in the light of all the other poems ever written. We read A the better to read B (we have to start somewhere; we may get very little out of A). We read B the better to read ...