Or triumphant. The poem’s most poignant feature may be the soldier’s optimism, his faith in what comes after hell. He insists ...

Melody and rhythm are almost inextricably linked. I say ‘almost’ because you can have melody or harmony without a distinguishable rhythm, and rhythm itself can exist with no melodic content at all.

A sampling of some worthwhile 2024 picture books that didn’t make it into the column last year but, nevertheless, deserve ...

To create community and a shared identity, many cultures have experiences that blur the line between performer and audience.

Anupam Shobhakar’s latest track Formless is a bold exploration of rhythm and melody, a seamless Indo-Western collaboration ...

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

Zhu, Q. (2025) The Art of “Silence” in Interpersonal Communication. Open Journal of Modern Linguistics, 15, 69-77. doi: 10.4236/ojml.2025.151005 .

In “Take him Out into the World”, “some buzzard wing / is hanging over you and your child ... non-mammalian examples, like the Goldfinch. The beauty here is that the poetry stops short ...

“We will be displaying one of her poems in MOSAIC Children’s Museum for the whole month of February, along with her bio and photo, in honor of Black History Month.” Her mother, Jacqueline ...

Hamza Abuharb speaks about his move from Gaza to Houston, organizing student movements for Palestine at South Texas College and his love for poetry.