Among Rossetti’s best known poems is this short work about one of the plants most associated with the Christmas season. Our idea of what Santa Claus looks like comes from a variety of places ...
Where to read: You can read “The Haunted Palace” at Poetry Foundation. Poe’s The Oval Portrait is one of his shorter stories, but one whose intensity is not limited by length. The short ...
In an acrostic poem, the first letter of each line spells a word. The word is the subject of the poem. She really really likes stars. But this is no ordinary poem. This is an acrostic. So there is ...
The very definition of “lyric,” in the Oxford Dictionary, indicates that the word cannot be satisfactorily defined:— Lyric: Now the name for short poems, usually divided into stanzas or ...
These extremely short pieces, published in 2018, fall somewhere between fierce poetry and story ... Immigrants craving comfort food that’s tricky to make in a supermarket full of foreign ...
Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...