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How to Write Haiku

By: Deborah Lawwill

Haiku are short poems with three lines and a certain number of syllables on each line. more...

Rumi, Hafiz, & the Truth of the Mystic Poets

By: Jane Alexandra Cormack

According to the great Persian Sufi Poet Rumi (1207-1273), love is the most difficult concept to define, "My pen splinters when I write Love,"* he writes. more...

How Ovid's Heroides Used Virgil's Aeneid

By: Feature Writer Luke Arnott

Ovid wanted to retell part of Virgil's Aeneid in his own way. But his Heroides doesn't change the Dido and Aeneas story, one of many tales in Ovid's early poem. more...

Poema de Fernán González

By: Taran Johnston

The historical figure, Count Fernán González of Castile, provides the basis for the famous chivalric poem that bears his name. more...

The River of Poetry

By: Dolores Bundy

The evolution of Black Poetry has typically been excluded from mainstream literature. more...

Dante Rossetti and the Paradox of Time

By: Ana Hartman

Rossetti portrays time paradoxically as that which lends peacefulness and elevation, but also as that which is simultaneously haunting in its inevitable passing. more...

Sarojini Naidu – Nightingale of India – Poems

By: Martin G. Wood

Many of Sarojini Naidu's poems are infused with political and social commentary; but, quite a few are simply musings on life; meditative and halcyonic. more...

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