F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...

Editor’s Note: Tess Taylor is the author of five collections of poetry, including “Work ... and which seemed a failed experiment by fall, had only been fooling me — it is not only not ...

The words are plastered on a white piece of paper in large, colorful markers in a class at Arthur D. Healey School in ...

Today’s Poem of the Day, “Song in the Key of Autumn,” published in the Century in 1920, exhibits the early twentieth century’s fluid relationship with traditional rhyme and meter. As its title ...

"I only like poems that rhyme." Or, more drastically: "If it doesn't rhyme, it's not a poem." These declarations of allegiance to end-rhyme sound traditional or even daringly reactionary ...

The full-throated music of the poem might have a similar effect on the reader. The cascading rhymes and trippy images conjure a kind of aesthetic rapture that’s not so different from falling in ...

The rhyme is usually accompanied by a little dance. The kids all hold hands and form a circle, then run or skip until they fall into the middle in a heap on top of each other. The standard ...

I discovered that some shiso, which a kind neighbor offered me last spring, and which seemed a failed experiment by fall, had only been ... and particularly writing poems. In an often-furious ...