In recent years, novels in verse for young readers have garnered wide acclaim. Notable examples include Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson and The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo—which won ...

Only today’s “Stanzas for Music” — the 1816 poem that begins “There be none of Beauty’s daughters” — is a present-tense love poem: ... In the coming months we will be reaching out to contemporary ...

The season for stanzas: It’s National Poetry Month. Read a poem. ... Her poetry and essays can be found in Prairie Schooner, Grist, Best New Poets and Passages North, among others.

Those are the opening lines of a four-stanza poem titled “Of Comments,” written by one of the world’s emerging great poets: ... On Media Twitter, for example, they are all but the norm, ...

Learn how how rhyme scheme and stanza length can be clues to a poem's form. How to draft poetry Discover how you can draft your own poetry using examples from Wilfred Owen’s ‘Anthem for Doomed ...

For example in Dusting the Phone by Jackie Kay the poem is carefully structured into tercets (three line stanzas) until the final stanza. Opening stanza : I am spending my time imagining the worst ...

An avid writer of poetry, Dorval sat down three days later and quickly penned the 14-stanza poem. "As I start for the house in the fourteen-foot boat, I imagine I'm crossing a castle's moat." ...

Decoration: scene from the 14th example of filial piety--Yang Hsiang saving his father from the tiger--molded on the interior of the dish. Interspersed in the design, title and four-stanza poem ...

(Medical Xpress) -- Research from the Universities of Reading and Oxford suggests that learning poems by heart makes people feel better and strengthens identity.

A complete draft of Parker’s best-known poem, a 16-stanza work alternately titled “The Trail’s End” or “The Story of Bonnie and Clyde,” was originally written in the notebook, but it ...