Given rhyme’s disappearance from contemporary English poems, it’s amusing how the “technology of the 21st century” clings to such an unfashionable literary device.

This isn’t to disparage rap or spoken word poetry (whose complex rhyming schemes can amaze) or those who wish to writer verse ...

1. ‘The Forties’ by David Samoilov (1920-1990) Samoilov (born Kaufman) is regarded as one of the leading Soviet poets of WWII. His poems depicted the horrors of war and the struggle for peace ...

Peter Sheehy, a history teacher at the Horace Mann School, sat in his bedroom, trolling the Internet. It was the fall of 2006, shortly after lunch on a Saturday afternoon. The school year had just ...

Jamaal May, described by the Boston Review as a “poet as machinist”, writes exquisite paths between the melancholy and the sublime.Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, May explores themes of ...

Pint-size pioneer ‘Dora the Explorer’ celebrates her 25th anniversary ...

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