For National Poetry Month, I’ve curated a playlist of seven songs that represent poetic devices like allusion, irony and rhyme. I call it “the wordplaylist.” Prepare to be taken back to middle school ...

David Balton and Jane Stewart throw us into cold water with their latest puzzle. By Caitlin Lovinger ACROSTIC — This puzzle is a first for me: a claustrophobic acrostic, courtesy of David Balton ...

Orpheus’s new bride Eurydice, fleeing from her would-be rapist Aristaeus (to whom the Isaiah-like prophet Proteus is recounting the tale), encounters a huge water-snake. Several cue words point to the ...

ABC POEM ON TEEJ A: Adoration and worship of Devi Parvati for marital bliss and well being of children/ B: Bonding among women folks with fasting, processions and swinging/ C: Chanting verses and ...

In a recent reading of the gospel of Mark, I was struck by how often Christ retreated to the sea or to a quiet place. “Water Panel” imagines one of those quiet places. The images in the poem ...

and change it back into water. Editor's note: Former Butte resident Kristi Hager, of Missoula, wrote this poem for the Snow Geese Memorial held at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Butte in March 1996.

Kerry Elson writes humorous acrostic poems about graying in her thirties.

In this episode, an award-winning poet discusses editing a book of poems by an award-winning poet—“How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton”, edited by Aracelis Girmay, is a literary ...

The author, a 12-year-old student from Hebrew Academy of Nassau County offers this poem on the theme of freedom.

Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon start the year off with a tale of small regret. By Caitlin Lovinger ACROSTIC — Did anyone else have a visceral response to the passage today and smell burned hair? I ...