Poetry

Poetry is written, spoken or sung language that is used in stronger or more original ways than prose is used. Poetry uses the meanings of words as prose...

Visual poetry is poetry in which the typographical arrangement of words and images is important in conveying the intended effect. It was influenced by...

In poetry, meter (British English spelling: metre) means the rhythmic patterns in a verse. The units of poetic meter, like rhyme, vary from language to...

Lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal feelings, usually spoken in the first person. The term derives from a form of Ancient...

Poetry is a magazine that prints poems. It was started in 1912 by Harriet Monroe in Chicago, Illinois. From its beginning the magazine published poetry...

American poetry is poetry of the United States. It is most often written in English. Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman are the most famous American poets...

Latina poetry is poetry written by women of Latin American ancestry. Many Latina poets live in the United States. Some are American immigrants. Others...

The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to today. Over this period, English poets have written some of the longest-surviving...

Caribbean poetry is a vast and vibrant field of poetry.  It spans the poetry of many countries, including Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominica, Haiti, Trinidad...

Epic poetry tells a dramatic story in a poem. There are characters in the story. It is usually long, and takes place in different settings. Epic poems...

Waka (Japanese: 和歌) or Yamato uta is a genre of Japanese poetry. Waka literally means "Japanese poem" in Japanese. The word waka was originally created...

The Simple English Wiktionary has a definition for: verse. In poetry a verse is technically a single line in a poem. A poem is a "metrical composition"...

Language poetry is a different way of thinking about poetry that began in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. It was a reaction to the usual ways of writing...

as poetry. One of the main features of the Hebrew poetry is parallelism of thought. The Book of Psalms and the Book of Proverbs are almost all poetry. Some...

Narrative poetry is a type of poetry that tells a story. Narrative poems can be short or long. Some are novels or short stories written in verse form....

Objectivism in poetry is about a group of American poets who came together in the 1930s. Poets in this group "tend to use language more literally than...

The Best American Poetry series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing seventy-five poems.Each year, this series presents essential American...

Delhi Poetry Festival is an annual poetry festival. It was organized by Poets Corner Group in Delhi in 2013. "First poetry festival in Delhi offers platform...

Comics poetry is a hybrid creative form that combines aspects of comics and poetry. it draws from the syntax of comics, pictures, panels, speech balloons...

Latin poetry is the poetry of Ancient Rome. They started by adapting Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus are the earliest surviving examples of...