In as much as we try to run away from the classical definition of poetry by William Wordsworth as the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings and emotions recollected in tranquillity,” we keep ...

I started writing poetry when I was eight years old and I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that doing so saved my life then and at many other times. Why did I start writing poetry? Frankly, I ...

“Open Form in American Poetry: Essays” by Burton Hatlen; University of Maine Press, Orono, Maine, 2021; 309 pages, hardcover, $35. In cultures with deep traditions of respect for learning, such as in ...

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