University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. What are we to make of these lines where one thing bursts out of another? There are images here half inserted ...

Contrary to what English teachers led us to believe, most readers don’t judge poetry based on factors like alliteration and rhyme. In fact, a new study published in the journal Psychology of ...

New Delhi: A research conducted to find answers for the ever elusive question "Why do we like what we like?" has led to the conclusion several factors including vivid mental imagery render poetry more ...

Today’s post is by poetry facilitator and hypnotherapist Terhi K. Cherry. Terhi explained: As a poetry facilitator and a hypnotherapist, I support creativity tapping into the subconscious mind. We are ...

In an age of assured debuts, Brecken Hancock's Broom Broom (Coach House, 72 pages, $18) might be the most bold. Reading like a visceral assault on now-clichés of feminist poetry, Hancock's lines tilt ...

In its purest form, poetry would consist entirely of images. Nothing more than pictures are needed to evoke a mood or arouse an emotion. As the proverbial saying goes, “an image is worth a multitude ...

Celebrate National Poetry Month this April! Join us for a special celebration of National Poetry Month with the Poet-Imagery Tea Event, hosted by the SaddleBrooke Writers Group. This unique event will ...

Contrary to what English teachers led us to believe, most readers don’t judge poetry based on factors like alliteration and rhyme. In fact, a new study published in the journal Psychology of ...