When asked to describe her poetry, Jean Prokott said, “It's a loaded question for sure, one that poets are always trying to ...

all flowers are shadow-hued only in dreams can we see the colours of that darkness. In the dark, we love and hold each other ...

St. Joseph High School juniors in English teacher Alicia Yrle’s class recently wrote extended metaphor poems as part of an assignment related to the poem “Huswifery “ by Edward Taylor. It compares the ...

Song Lin’s poem, translated by Dong Li, primarily uses interesting images to articulate the feelings of a “divided self” and a sense of being everywhere and nowhere at once. The poet left China in the ...

Thought of the day by Emily Dickinson, “Hope is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul / And sings the tune without the words / And never stops at all.” — Over 1,800 poems. One timeless ...

This post is part 2 of a series. To see the first entry, click here. In my last post, we discussed how literature can force you to become aware of and understand specific things. We considered how ...

Jan. 14-20 is Idiom Week, and today we thought we’d have a heart-to-heart about some strange phrases we use. Idioms, metaphors and similes are all types of figurative language. According to ...