COLLINS: It's three lines long. It has something in common with a number of these poems in that it takes a cliche, like that name rings a bell, a vague remembrance, and it - try to gives (ph ...

May sound like a cliche that you turn on the news and your ... So why do people feel compelled to write poems? HECHT: The attempt to express how beauty makes us feel or how sorrow makes us feel ...

I can get to this point with poetry, especially reading many poems from the same year. Literature is a cliché-generating machine — we belong to the age, we sound of its spirit. Yet, every year ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

Derived from the French word meaning “to stereotype,” a cliche represents a thought or statement that has become trite through excessive repetition. Clichés exist because certain ...

We take pens to leave at her headstone and we sit in the grass and sometimes we write poems of our own. Amelia and I talk constantly about love and loss, send each other first drafts of writing ...