John MacKenna's most recent books are Absent Friend, a memoir of his friendship with Leonard Cohen; and Father, Son and ...

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"He was a loving brother, a loyal friend to those ... Ted Hughes died in 1998, the year he published Birthday Letters, a series of poems about his life with Plath and her death.

Joe Coelho looks at how poetry can be performed, bringing the words to life rather than keeping them on the printed page. He explores what tone and timbre can bring to poems when performing or ...

Learn about rhythm in poetry and how it can be used as device which has an effect on the reader. How to understand open and closed form in poetry Closed form poetry uses stricts patterns of rhymes ...

Beyonce wasn't about to let her birthday go by without a bang! The "Single Ladies" hitmaker turned 43 on September 4, and she ...

Her brother worked for three years as a ranger at Mount Rainier National Park, where a table displaying A.R. Ammons’ poem “Uppermost” now sits. The poem imagines a grain of rock on a mountaintop as ...

"There's a base hit for Jace Jung in front of his brother. Baseball is really poetry sometimes," Benetti said. "They have a very close relationship. They've always been extremely competitive." ...

Ricardo Nazario y Colón wears a suit to his formal, professional dealings in university administration. He did the same in Penfield Library, not to officiate a meeting, but for his other passion: ...

Shakespeare reading "Hamlet" to his family, circa 1600. Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences. A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 ...

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Haunting Olivia,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2005. The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Love Letter ...