From third grade through sixth grade, I walked to school pretty much every day. There were a few different routes I could take, but all of them started the same way — out the front door, down the ...

Life likes a little mess. All patterns need a snarl. The best patterns know how best to heed a snarl. Every high style, every strict form was once nonce. The best way to save a snagged pattern? Repeat ...

They are written to a precise syllabic count. It begins with a line of nine syllables and then moves progressively down to the middle line of one syllable and then moves back to nine, structurally the ...

Some readers feel intimidated by poetry. Maybe somewhere along the way, the emphasis was placed on what a poem means. What a poem “means” is the consolation prize. Besides, nobody knows — not the ...

Guru/ Spiritual, divine/ Knowing oneself, knowing cosmos, knowing supreme being/ Guru dispels darkness of ignorance caused by materialism and egoism, while teacher imparts information about the world ...

This post originally appeared on Last Word on Nothing. April is Mathematics Awareness Month. April is also National Poetry Month. Coincidence? Yep, almost definitely. But it’s also an opportunity: I’d ...

Every poem has structural features that have a bearing on the way the poem sounds or what it means. To comment on the structure of a poem is just the same as commenting on its language – you notice ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Poetry is experienced before it is understood. The rhythm and cadence of a well-crafted recitation can create a magic world in which words jump out of the page and reel in ...