There are many forms of literature, and poetry is one of them, poetry exists even before writing itself was invented, and it’s a form of literature that remains appreciated and popular to these days...
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Who Were the Cursed Poets?
Can creative genius become a curse? The French poet, Paul Verlaine thought so, and he proved it in 1884, by writing The Cursed Poets, an essay about the life and art of six poets (including himself) A group of artists who lived a life of torment...
Read more10 Tips for Young Writers to Start Writing Poetry
Can poetry exist in these times of YouTube and Twitter? Of course. Moreover, social networks can become ideal platforms of diffusion. The beauty of poetry lies in its ability to mutate, adapt and update itself. In this lies its validity as art...
Read moreLatin American Poets You Should Be Reading
The South Americans have a great literary tradition, with an interesting record of styles and influences that have helped the world to get to know more about their very unique cosmology. Written primarily in Spanish and Portuguese, they probably...
Read moreWays to Celebrate Poetry Month
The Academy of American Poets created the National Poetry Month in the United States to encourage people to appreciate poetry and to become more aware of the power of poetry in expressing beauty, emotion, and universal ideas. National Poetry...
Read moreUsing the Terza Rima Style in Poetry
If you read and write poetry, then you must be familiar with its formalistic elements such as rhyme, meter, sound and imagery. Poems are typically written in stanza form composed of a certain number of lines that are written in a specific rhyming...
Read moreThe Great Feminist Poetry Movement
Since time immemorial, men held the sole authority when it came to the field of the arts, literature and philosophy. Back then, they could not fathom the idea of women as thinking creatures. This became the reason why all manner of knowledge and...
Read moreRabindranath Tagore’s Poetic Genius
Rabindranath Tagore aka ‘The Bard of Bengal’ is hailed as the best and most prolific writer in India. He was born on May 7, 1861, in Calcutta, British India. As a writer, he wrote under many pen names such as Gurudev, Kabiguru, and...
Read moreAn Overview on Narrative Poetry
When the word “poetry” is mentioned what typically comes to people’s minds are those pieces of literature that resemble and sound like song lyrics. To others, what they commonly picture is the complex language of Shakespeare’s sonnets. What these...
Read moreMobile Apps to Learn Poetry
In our modern world, where the internet and mobile technology has taken over almost every aspect of human life, it only makes sense that traditional media and learning platforms also make their way into smartphones and mobile devices. The same...
Read moreGreat Children’s Poets
A Good Place to Start When we think of great poets we may be transported back in time to another century when poetry was a more common place form of literature that people were familiar with and accustomed to listening to and...
Read moreCaribbean Poetry
The Caribbean Caribbean poetry, often referred to as West Indian poetry, covers poetry that hails from those island regions and may take the form of either oral or written traditions and history that have been variously passed down through time...
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