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

Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form ...

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

Daters who’ve swiped through the apps have seen it too many times — men who make a point of listing their height right up front, along with the eye-roll-inducing phrase, “because apparently ...

But there’s a poem in it called “Old News.” I talk about the advice to live in the present moment, that Buddhist cliche. I try, but it’s lonesome in the present moment. I tend to live in ...

But I can leave you with a few of the world’s most common pieces of advice—phrases so familiar we call them cliches. Overused? Maybe. But, through my life at BC, I’ve come to believe they’re overused ...

The “Awesome Issues of Language” is a gift that keeps on giving (Letters, April 24). One of the worst offenders in my view is: “How do things taste so far?” Upon hearing it, I always ask ...

Most relationship advice floating around isn't helpful. You've probably nodded along to advice that felt off but couldn't quite put your finger on why. The problem isn't just that these clichés ...

Examples of onomatopoeia are the types of words you can imagine inside a colorful bubble in a comic book. So what is an example of onomatopoeia? “Boom!” “Splat!” “Pow!” These are some ...

From ancient Greek soapbox soliloquies to viral TikTok videos of poetry slams, spoken word has always charged language with kinetic immediacy. Encompassing a unique blend of honesty and an ...

Her poetry has been published in the likes of the ... I am — boot it for the cliche. And Hitzig is perceptive to cliche. “I have started to become a little bit annoyed about people being ...