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From The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1916, 1923, 1928, 1930, 1934, 1939, 1947, 1949, © 1969 by Holt Rinehart and Winston, Inc. …

List poetry, also known as catalog verse, as a form and device is widely used, and its roots date back to roughly 100 AD. Verses of lists are present in Homer ’s Iliad, which dates to the eighth …

In “Invention,” a 2019 blog post published by the Poetry Foundation, Brown explains: I decided to call the form a duplex because something about its repetition and its couplets made me feel …

One powerful example of the interplay between a persona poem and the perception of the audience is “Night, Death, Mississippi,” by Robert Hayden. In the poem, Hayden adopts the …

The literary equivalent of a collage, found poetry is often made from newspaper articles, street signs, graffiti, speeches, letters, or even other poems. A pure found poem consists exclusively …

The pantoum is a poem of any length, composed of four-line stanzas in which the second and fourth lines of each stanza serve as the first and third lines of the next stanza.

Self-Portrait Poems - Poems that capture a portrait of a poet, written by the poet, and are appropriate for young people.

In the first issue of The Prose Poem: An International Journal, editor Peter Johnson explained, “Just as black humor straddles the fine line between comedy and tragedy, so the prose poem …

Poems for Oral Interpretation - The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don’t mind happiness not always being so very much fun if you don’t mind a touch of hell now and then …