Written in the stars is the poem: “Stars above in the night, hanging there, oh so high. Look at them, they shine so bright, punching through the ink black sky.” A rhyme scheme is when we look at the ...

Those so-called “cultured” types sure love to brag about their love of poetry. We aren’t sure how they get their fix of literary arts. But we like to imagine that they sport berets, hang around coffee ...

Although not well enough known even in California, Joseph Stroud is one of the most accomplished American poets writing today, as appealing and durable as any we have. In the tradition of California ...

In states like Nebraska, Oklahoma, Montana, and Wyoming, poet laureates work to include rural in all duties of the office, from their poems, to their poetry workshops, to poetry readings in small-town ...

Perth, Australia singer-songwriter Rachel Dillon. Photo via Facebook page Rachel Dillon Music. I did a master class in Perth, Australia and worked on a song with Rachel Dillon. Here are the first two ...

You can work out the rhyme scheme of a poem by labelling the words that rhyme with each other. It will help you see the pattern of the poem. For example, if a poem's first and third lines rhyme you ...

In 2005, the National Endowment for the Arts, together with the Poetry Foundation, established Poetry Out Loud, a program intended to encourage “the nation’s youth to learn about great poetry through ...