‘A big bad bull whipped me down’: cowboy poetry, old art form of the US west, lassos a new generation

From Los Angeles to Nevada, younger people are preserving a longstanding tradition one lyric at a time ...
Backstage

Spoken Word: Everything to Know About the Art of Oral Poetry

From ancient Greek soapbox soliloquies to viral TikTok videos of poetry slams, spoken word has always charged language with kinetic immediacy. Encompassing a unique blend of honesty and an engaging ...
PBS

Weekly Poem: Mark Ford evokes memory through poetic form

“I’ve looked at pictures, slides my parents took afterwards, and remember how gray and cold and dreary England was in comparison to the vibrant colors of Africa,” said Mark Ford. Born in Nairobi, ...
Hyperallergic

Getty Acquires Concrete Poetry by Two Modern Pioneers of the Form

Ian Hamilton Finlay, interior of “4 Sails” (1966) (image courtesy of the Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay) Tug, fug, chug, glug — such are the rhyming words used by the writer and artist Ian Hamilton ...
Korea JoongAng Daily

Korea experiences a poetry boom as younger readers rediscover the literary form

Poetry has traditionally sold best among older readers, particularly those in their 50s. But recently, a growing number of ...
Springfield News-Leader

Poetry from Daily Life: You can follow a form and still end up with your very own poem

Hundreds of writing workshops into my long career, I'm still amazed by one particular phenomenon: Whenever I give a single writing prompt to a group of people — of any age! — they will always come up ...
Publishers Weekly

The Poem That Will Not End: Fun with Poetic Forms and Voices

Joan Bransfield Graham, illus. by Krysten Brooker. Amazon/Two Lions, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4778-4715-2 When a boy is "seized by a rhythmical beat," he extemporaneously crafts poems in response to ...