ONE of the things that critics often speak of is prose rhythm, but if you look in the books to find out what prose rhythm is you will gain but small comfort. It appears to be something that a man of ...

Poetry has deep roots in music — in fact, in some cultures, poetry and song are the same word. Edward Hirsch, author of A Poet's Glossary,... How Rhythm Carries A Poem, From Head To Heart Poetry, ...

“Poetics of Rhythm” – that is the title of a project currently in the starting blocks at Goethe University Frankfurt. The aim of Professor Achim Geisenhanslüke, Professor for Literary Theory and ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Timothy Rasinski, who lives in Stow, Ohio. Tim was told he was a good writer during his master’s degree program. However, his writing is not poetry, but ...

Critics often treat the bibliography of a poet like a phone number, chunking the output into smaller units, marking shifts that occur over the arc of a life. There is the early work, the mature work, ...

Noa has always been fascinated by the intersection of music, language and race. This passion led her to study jazz poetry — a genre in which poetry’s rhythms and cadences merge seamlessly with musical ...

After the murder of Julius Caesar in Shakespeare’s play, Brutus appeals to the charged, fearful crowd in a speech written in prose. He ends up getting his point across. People can see his side and why ...

Bermudian poet Alan C. Smith is swiftly gaining a reputation as a cat poet, but his cat poems are never cutesy, tend to be fully clawed, and are rarely about cats at all. Some of Mr. Smith?s cat poems ...