This week, the magazine published Stephen Dunn’s staunchly amusing poem “Testimony.” I spoke with Dunn about the poem and his writing process in keener detail. The speaker’s turn of phrase in ...
We’ve been inviting people to write and share their own poems in honor of National Poetry Month. And we’re learning that, for some of you, isolation is stirring long-dormant creative impulses. Here ...
KEARNEY — In honor of poetry month, Brad Aaron Modlin, Reynolds Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, answers five questions about poetry: Modlin: If you want to ...
When I realized I couldn't answer the questions posed about two of my own poems on the Texas state assessment tests (STAAR Test), I had a flash of panic — oh, no! Not smart enough. Such a dunce. My ...
In the early 20th century, the composer Charles Ives produced a piece of program music titled “The Unanswered Question,” in which a plaintive, solo trumpet repeatedly poses “the perennial question of ...
Ada Limón, the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate, will visit William & Mary as part of the College of Arts & Sciences Open Inquiry ...