Tell him to be different from other people if it comes natural and easy being different. — Carl Sandburg, "A Father to His Son" Most people can learn to do most things adequately. Ben Hogan believed ...

Billy Collins is on a crusade against 'difficult' poetry, but has he gone a step too far by taking on the Irish, asks Belinda… Billy Collins is on a crusade against 'difficult' poetry, but has he gone ...

Basking Shark To stub an oar on a rock where none should be, To have it rise with a slounge out of the sea Is a thing that happened once (too often) to me. But not too often – though enough. I count ...

In her Foley poetry contest submission, “Myself, the Almost Infinite (A ghazal),” Rainey Sierra writes about “My mother’s eyes—bloodshot boondocks—Chicago sprouting from Tennessee soil, everything ...

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Inspiration: you can encourage children to appreciate poetry by making time to read with them regularly "The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes and, before I could read them for myself, I had come ...

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Mir Taqi Mir (1723-1810) is ranked among the greatest poets of Urdu with Ghalib, Iqbal and Mir Anees. Mir is a poet who has not only lent credibility to Urdu poetry but the Urdu language itself. As Dr ...

I dreamed of being a writer from the sixth grade. I think this was because I enjoyed reading books, from a very early age. I narrowed my writing interests down to tanka poetry when I was about 20. My ...