Articles for Students
A history and how-to guide to the famous form.
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Article for StudentsBy The Editors
Poems and teaching resources from Kennedy's new anthology.
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Article for StudentsBy Rebecca Hazelton
How not getting to do everything leads to doing what you want.
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Article for StudentsBy Edward Hirsch
Poems may be epic, lyric, dramatic, or a mixture of the three. Most poems find a way to defy these conventional categories.
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Article for StudentsBy Rachel Richardson
Working with non-traditional students, and finding poetry in prison.
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Article for StudentsBy Robert Pinsky
Freedom is where the artist begins: there are no rules, and the principles and habits are up to you.
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Article for StudentsBy Edward Hirsch
The lyric poem began as a work to be performed, to be sung or read aloud. Over time, the lyric transformed into a work for the page, for the reader...
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Article for StudentsBy Edward Hirsch
Poems are like messages in a bottle sent out with little hope of finding a recipient. Those of us who find and read poems become their unknown addresses.
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Article for StudentsBy Edward Hirsch
Where does a poem come from? The sources of inspiration are many, from reason to a touch of madness.
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Article for StudentsBy Michael McGriff
Starting with images rather than words can help show an experience, instead of telling it.
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Article for StudentsBy Edward Hirsch
A lyric poem is a special communiqué between an I and a You. It speaks out of a solitude to a solitude; it begins and ends in silence.
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Article for StudentsBy Edward Hirsch
Reading poetry calls for an active reader who must imaginatively collaborate with a poem to give voice to it.
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Article for StudentsBy Rebecca Hazelton
How to use simile and metaphor like a boss.
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Article for StudentsBy Rachel Richardson
Opening the luminous door in your writing.
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Article for StudentsBy Hannah Brooks-Motl
Poems that serve as letters to the world.
