Imagine engineering students writing poetry. “It’s almost a paradox,” says Danny Long, an instructor in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at CU Boulder. Long’s Radical Science Writing course ...

John Ernest, chair of the Department of English at the University of Delaware, wants to bring poetry to life, so sometimes he’ll start his classes with a dramatic reading of a poem. On more than one ...

Critics and readers love the term, but it can be awfully slippery to pin down. That’s what makes it so fun to try. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most ...

“The first is the voice of the poet talking to himself—or to nobody. The second is the voice of the poet addressing an audience, whether large or small. The third is the voice of the poet when he ...

The Book by Stéphane Mallarmé, translated by Sylvia Gorelick and published by Exact Change In his 1897 essay “Crisis of Verse,” Stéphane Mallarmé writes of a particular moment in poetry: Victor Hugo ...

Here are the year’s most notable collections of verse as chosen by our poetry columnist. Credit...Photo illustration by Sebastian Mast Supported by By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of ...

University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. What is a society without its poets? If all poetry disappeared from our libraries and shelves and virtual ...