Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

At the most extreme, some forms of constrained writing are even more self-limiting and end up being very, very constrained ...

If you still need some help writing limerick poems, don't fret—we have some famous limerick examples below for inspiration.

A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul ... This is not a very common form in English; the best-known examples come from the Renaissance — from Donne, the Elizabethan sonneteer Sir ...

With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion ... In the coming months we will be reaching out to contemporary poets for examples of current, primarily formalist work, to show that ...

A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul ... Our ears hear four heavy beats. As these examples suggest, there’s a lot of variation within the basic pattern — longer or shorter lines ...

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information ...