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 ...
These extremely short pieces, published in 2018, fall somewhere between fierce poetry and story. The 300 stories are neither plotted nor linear; instead, you’ll feel as if you’ve walked into a ...
Now, I tend to write funny rhyming poems. But as I tell kids ... a picnic poem (or a poem written by a mouse), and a short, decisive poem. All from kids who had most likely thought that poetry ...