Essays

  A not infrequent problem that a poetry editor must face is a contributor’s intransigence. Sometimes this resistance is on...

by Michael Curtis | excerpted from Occasional Poetry Tradition grows from wisdom, from the accumulated experience of millennia; in poetic...

by James Sale Sonnets, 2nd edition. Shanti Arts, 2020 Jesus and Eros, Bardsinger Books, 2014 Theresa Rodriguez is a relatively...

Black Cat a poem derived from "Schwarze Katze" by Rainer Maria Rilke, as translated by Martin Hill Ortiz A crash!...

This piece is sponsored by KidSecured by Evan Mantyk and Kathy Brellan Lord Byron was born George Gordon Byron in...

by T.M. Moore   Our Image-hungry Age Increasingly, our postmodern generation prefers its communications to be in as few words...

A breeze came out of the North one day, and cried, "September's begun!" A breeze came out of the North...

by T.M. Moore I had just finished teaching one of the adult classes at our church on the meaning of...

  One interesting question is ‘why poetry, specifically?’ I am currently writing an ‘epic’ called The English Cantos, and I...

Roots in the Sky, Boots on the Ground: Metaphysical Poems C.B. Anderson, Kelsay Books, 107 pages paperback, ISBN-10: 1949229688 2019,...

  This interview was conducted by Carol Smallwood with poet Theresa Rodriguez following the release of the first edition of Sonnets by...

The Society of Classical Poets successfully holds its first symposium in New York City (Press Release)   NEW YORK—A growing...

A Poet’s Lament - for Charles Southerland, whose brilliant prose style I so painfully tried to imitate and incorporate Nobody...

by Lew Icarus Bede The way I dealt with T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland was to write a poem, equally...

Read the poetry of the recently departed John Whitworth at Trinacria or The Poetry Archive. by Sally Cook Any ordinary...

William Ruleman: Profane and Sacred Love, Feather Books, 2002 and reprint 2014 by James Sale Having read some excellent poetry...

The Bad The first video of Hannah Silva instructs us on the abyss that poetry reading has found itself in...

  Who Killed Poetry? A Critique of Modernism and Post-Modernism (Part I) by Edward C. "Ted" Hayes A Prefatory Poem...

by Evan Mantyk As the border wall with Mexico that President Trump is building gains greater and greater attention, so...

by Gregory Spicer “Death and taxes” bemoan us now, as ever. Yet as I bask in the fading embers of...

by James A. Tweedie My interest in Sapphic verse arose from a discussion thread on an SCP post some months...

Presented by Monty Phillips Given that the recent days have been rightfully occupied by the remembering of the humans who...

When formal poets come to me for advice, I do my best to be helpful. I can comment on metrics...

by James Sale Carol Smallwood In the Measuring is a substantial new collection of 77 poems by Carol Smallwood. Carol...

by Evan Mantyk Where is Homer? The epic poems of the famous Greek bard were the cornerstone of education for...

by Joseph Charles MacKenzie Read the Selected Poems from Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal online. Email [email protected] for details on...

by Manfred Dietrich The world is riddled with riddles. Riddling is as old and as ubiquitous as language itself. When...

by Charles Eager William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in 1770—the same year as gave us Beethoven, Hegel, and...

by James Sale Wind in the Cave, Finishing Line Press, 2017 Out of Nothing, Shanti Arts Publishing, 2018 Recently in...

Paradox as Explanatory Paradigm in Norman MacCaig’s ‘Summer Farm’ by Phillip Whidden   Summer Farm Straws like tame lightnings lie...

An earlier version of this piece was published in The Epoch Times By Evan Mantyk When Jon McNaughton released his...

Organ Harvest by Damian Robin, published by Fulton Verse, 2018. Read three sonnets from the work here.  by James Sale...

by James Sale FORMAL COMPLAINTS by Joseph S. Salemi, Somer Rocks Press, 1997 MASQUERADE by Joseph S. Salemi, Somer Rocks...

by Con Chapman Nyla Matuk and I have a few things in common; we are both poets (or in my...

By James A. Tweedie Call me a snob but I am generally attracted to what is commonly referred to as...

''A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyone’s knowledge of himself...

  by James Green “Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove That...

By David B. Gosselin William Shakespeare (baptized April 26, 1564 - died April 23, 1616) is arguably the greatest writer...

by Jane Blanchard George Herbert was born into a well-to-do and well-doing family of Montgomery, Wales, in 1593. When he...

By Con Chapman It has been a little more than eight years since poet Rachel Wetzsteon committed suicide at the...