- The Start: Writing Your Own Poem - Poetry Foundation
When we start writing our own poems, we become much more aware of Dickinson’s or Blake ’s miraculous compression of meaning through image, much more curious (accepting, even) of William Carlos Williams ’s line breaks
- William Shakespeare | The Poetry Foundation
While William Shakespeare’s reputation is based primarily on his plays, he became famous first as a poet With the partial exception of the Sonnets (1609), quarried since the early 19th century for autobiographical secrets allegedly encoded in them, the nondramatic writings have traditionally been pushed to the margins of the Shakespeare industry Yet the study of his nondramatic poetry can
- Poem of the Day - Poetry Foundation
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- Spring Poems - Poetry Foundation
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- Modernism - Poetry Foundation
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- How to Make a Poem | The Poetry Foundation
Choose a specific event from your past Imagine the event from start to finish Really see the memory Make a list of all the things you remember—all the objects and moments that you recall from this event
- Phillis Wheatley | The Poetry Foundation
Although she was an enslaved person, Phillis Wheatley Peters was one of the best-known poets in pre-19th century America Educated and enslaved in the household of prominent Boston commercialist John Wheatley, lionized in New England and England, with presses in both places publishing her poems, and paraded before the new republic’s political leadership and the old empire’s aristocracy
- Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star | The Poetry Foundation
As your bright and tiny spark Lights the traveler in the dark, Though I know not what you are, Twinkle, twinkle, little star
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