This video will help students understand the critical role of comparative figurative language (metaphor, simile, and personification) in establishing theme in poetry.

A video entitled “Poetic Sounds” which explores sound devices used in poetry, highlighting examples from several works by Edgar Allan Poe.

Discover Dobson’s deeply personal and emotive reflection on the complex experience of motherhood. Being a mum is tough. Sometimes, Dobson just wants to escape it all. One night, she decides to go on a long walk. She walks along the dark...

What gives Leave of Grass such a p0owerful rhythm? What makes essays and speeches so moving? In many cases, it's anaphora. In this video we'll define anaphora, look at famous examples of it, and talk about what it can do to better...

Latitude Festival is a four-day event held in Henham Park, Suffolk, England. Learn more about its unique blend of music, theater, literature, and art, making it culturally enriching and appealing to a wide range of festival-goers.

Joseph Ross is the author of four books of poetry: Raising King (forthcoming in 2020), Ache (2017), Gospel of Dust (2013), and Meeting Bone Man (2012). His poetry has appeared in a wide variety of publications including The New York...

Bill Holmes is a Philadelphia poet whose lifetime goal has been to become a successful writer and author. He is the author of the chapbook Illuminations, the spoken word CD Asphyxiation, and the newly released full-length poetry book...

Mercer Hall has been teaching for over sixteen years at an independent school on Long Island, New York. He is a five-time honoree as Teacher Of The Year, and he has been awarded both the Thomas J. Reid Excellence In Teaching Award and...

Christine Beck holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing degree from Southern Connecticut State University and is the author of Blinding Light (Grayson Books 2013), I’m Dating Myself, (Dancing Girl Press 2015) and Stirred, Not...

Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights, activist. She was the first Black woman to be featured on a United States quarter coin (25 cent coin) When she was eight, she was raped by her mother's boyfriend and chose...

Clare Rossini has published three collections of poems, the most recent of which is Lingo (The University of Akron Press). Her poems and essays have appeared in journals and anthologies such as The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, The...

Christine Beck holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing degree from Southern Connecticut State University and is the author of Blinding Light (Grayson Books 2013), I’m Dating Myself, (Dancing Girl Press 2015) and Stirred, Not...

Marilyn Nelson is the author or translator of more than 20 books and chapbooks for adults and children. Her critically acclaimed books for young adults include A Wreath for Emmett Till and the ground breaking Carver: A Life in Poems, a...

Poet, storyteller, and essayist Roberto Carlos Garcia is a self-described “sancocho […] of provisions from the Harlem Renaissance, the Spanish Poets of 1929, the Black Arts Movement, the Nuyorican School, and the Modernists.” Garcia is...

Srini Mandavilli is a practicing pathologist with expertise in gynecologic pathology. He has recently published a chapbook “Gods in the Foyer” and has poems published in Freshwater, SN Review, Caduceus, Drunken Boat, Theodate, The...

Poet, storyteller, and essayist Roberto Carlos Garcia is a self-described “sancocho […] of provisions from the Harlem Renaissance, the Spanish Poets of 1929, the Black Arts Movement, the Nuyorican School, and the Modernists.” Garcia is...

Emily Graslie reads Alison Hawthorne Deming's poem, "First Encounter Beach

Cameron Awkward-Rich (he/him/his) reads his poem, “Cento Between the Ending and the End

Cameron Awkward-Rich (he/him/his) reads the poem, “when i stand around among poets” by Lucille Clifton.

Discover how Dobson uses the imagery of a picnic to explore the ephemerality of youth. An autumnal bush scene sets the stage for a picnic. Sit with the speaker as she stews over the past while her billy threatens to bubble over! Tongues...

Bill Holmes is a Philadelphia poet whose lifetime goal has been to become a successful writer and author. He is the author of the chapbook Illuminations, the spoken word CD Asphyxiation, and the newly released full-length poetry book...

Andy Powell (he/him/his) reads his poem, “My Heart Is A Public Park

John Green kicks off Ours Poetica by reading a poem about poems: Poetry by Marianne Moore.

Mythology & Fiction Explained returns to Dante's Divine Comedy, having covered Inferno and due to very very popular demand we are now tagging along with Dante and Virgil as they travel through Purgatory. Join us on this wild adventure...