MassLive

Poetic Forms: Write a Rant

This link is currently the 2nd most popular piece of Web flotsam on Reddit today. It's called "Airline Complaint." Now, a rant is not a traditional poetic form, but that doesn't mean diddlysquat. I ...
Brandeis University

Lesson Plan: Discovering Meaning in Poetic Form & Language

In this exercise, you will use the knowledge you have gained from class discussions about poetic language and poetic structure to move beyond our classwork and interpret poems you have not seen before ...
MassLive

Poetic Forms: Write a Sonnet

The sonnet was probably invented by Giacomo da Lentini, a Sicilian, and popularized by poet Francesco Petrarca (see Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki ...
PBS

Mary Jo Bang Examines Grief’s Poetic Form, the Elegy

Mary Jo Bang is professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program at Washington University. Her fifth book, "Elegy," which won of the National Book Critics Circle Award, examines the ...
The New York Times

Poem: form

The poet, like countless others precariously employed in higher education, faces yet another broke summer. In Eckes’s poem, two forms sit in direct confrontation. The unemployment form, with its ...
The Guardian

The fundamentals of poetic form: An intensive weekend workshop

Dive into poetic form and discover the fundamental building blocks of poetry, in this hands-on and insightful weekend masterclass with award-winning poet Sinéad Morrissey. Online workshop Date: ...
The Harvard Crimson

THE LENTULUS LEGEND IN POETIC FORM

Jesus of the Emerald; by Gene Stratton--Porter. Garden City; Doubleday, Page & Co. 1924. $2.50. "Jesus of the Emerald" is a poetic version by Jone Stratton--Porter of the "Lentulus Legend" concerning ...
The Irish Times

Mastering a poetic form

POETRY:THIS BOOK WILL delight all who love poetry - and not only those who already feel affection for the standard 14-line rhyming sonnet we encountered in school. Here the reader finds not only ...
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, ...