I had the happy idea to fasten a bicycle wheel to a kitchen stool and watch it turn. —Duchamp I had the happy idea to suspend some blue globes in the air and watch them pop. I had the happy idea to ...

Now Jeffrey Brown has the latest report in a series we call "Where Poetry Lives." He and U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey are exploring poetry in various corners of American life, seeking to ...

Never heard of World Poetry Day? It’s pretty official, having been adopted by no less than UNESCO in 1999. One of the objectives is “to support linguistic diversity through poetic expression and to ...

Narrative means story and a narrative poem tells a story. Lots of poems are mainly about thoughts and feelings and not about telling a story, so this is a key difference. Key features of narrative ...