Houston, who started writing poetry on the spot in 2005, had invited other poets to come write poetry with him before, but Suskin was the first one who ever showed up.

“I think very few people can manage free verse,” wrote the poet W. H. Auden. “You need an infallible ear, like D. H. Lawrence, to determine where the lines should end.” How true. Knowing where to end ...

Free verse and narrative poems can sometimes seem similar, but they are not the same. One key difference is that narrative poems often include some poetic devices such as rhyming, rhythm (by ...

What became my poem is a collection of songs about the instruments that make up the whole, the drums, the trombone, the clarinet, etc. When they play together, as Cole Porter pointed out, "Now You Has ...