From projects written using very specific words to books penned without particular letters. A lipogram is a literary work in which a particular letter of the alphabet is intentionally avoided. The ...

Could autism explain Virginia Woolf’s unique voice? Her extraordinary eye for detail and connections suggests it might ...

On Thursday, the Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds Poetry Program announced Fruita resident Alicia Rebecca Meyers as the ...

Poetry provides all these treasures and, even if we accept one of them, it restores our ability to cope, and our sense of ...

A study looking at ancient texts may have found evidence of a galactic supernova in a poem praising Saladin, the first sultan of Egypt and Syria, written between December 1181 and May 1182 CE. The ...

What would an acorn write to an oak tree? Or a coat to her button? A child to his toes? A pebble to the river? Dear Acorn, ...

Luckily, in Jamie Grant’s ninth collection, Glass on the Chimney (Hardie Grant, 142pp, $24.95), there are quite a few rallies where the serves are accurate and the net play convincing. There is also a ...

The rhythm of the opening lines, “Half a league, half a league, / Half a league onward,” creates a relentless beat which is continued throughout the poem. This rhythm echoes the sound and pace of the ...

Unfortunately for the minister, it appears that Heaney didn’t write this, despite what Google has to say on the matter. Most websites attribute the quote to Heaney, but it was actually written by the ...