Repeat After Me: Patterns of Poetic Repetition
Explore four types of poetic repetition: anaphora, epistrophe, anadiplosis, and antanaclasis.
A Joke Walks into a Poem: Using Humor in Poetry
How do poets like Kevin Young, Ruth L. Schwartz, and Ellie Black blend wit and insight to address serious subjects in a fresh and engaging way?
Get to the Bottom of It: Fun with Footnotes
Despite their capacity to inspire fear in student research paper writers everywhere, footnotes offer an interesting way to experiment in poetry.
Making It Work: Five Jobs for Poem Titles
Titles can be put to work in any number of ways in a given poem, and finding the right one can be the key to unlocking a poem’s brilliance.
That’s So Meta: 8 Ars Poetica Poems
Did you know poets have been writing poems about poetry for more than two thousand years?