Both poetry and successful psychotherapy can require us to access our deepest feelings. Thus, the task of “finding the right words in the right order” unites the clinician, the patient, and the poet, ...
Jerome Rothenberg changed the course of poetics with the opening statement to his landmark "Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries From Africa, America, Asia, Europe & Oceania": "Primitive ...
Who decided you had to understand a poem to enjoy it? A high school teacher? That college English professor? How many of us have excused the fact that we don’t read contemporary poetry by saying we ...
When I read poetry, I usually do it alone. I don’t necessarily mean “alone” as in my sipping at a mug of green tea while reading with glowing battery-operated candles (though this occasionally happens ...
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Most of us have friends who love to read and are intelligent, sensitive readers but simply "don't get" poetry. It may be that they want the poem to have the kind of clear meaning ...
Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Despite the ubiquity of the usage, it was not always so: John Dryden and Alexander Pope did not speak of a poet’s ...
IT has been the fortune of the writer to peruse within the past year, for purposes that may be nameless, if not the entire metrical production of the United States and Great Britain, at least no ...
ONE would feel happier about the future of poetry on the stage were it not for the defensiveness of those who proclaim it. Poetry had used the theatre and the theatre had used poetry for thousands of ...
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