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Use rhythm, repetition, and rhyme, and rearrange the found words to create your own powerful poem. What if you could write a poem without using your own words? Jeff Kass shows you how to create a ...

Some of the lines in Annie Dillard’s new poems are, well, a bit out of the ordinary. Try this one: “What boy can sit all day in a boat/Without experiencing a longing/For some new patent transparent ...

Romaine Washington is the editor of “These Black Bodies Are… A Blacklandia Anthology,” “Purgatory Has an Address” and “Sirens in Her Belly.” (Courtesy of Romaine Washington) The worst thing about ...

Poetry is everywhere! That’s the idea behind found poems, a type of poetry, according to Wikipedia, “created by taking words, phrases and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them ...

Joy Harjo, the first Native Poet Laureate of the U.S., didn’t plan to become a poet. As a Muscogee Creek girl in Tulsa, Okla., she didn’t know anyone who wrote poetry and never imagined it was ...