Last week, the Collegian published an opinion stating that the poetic environment at Kenyon discourages rhyme.  This article characterizes the poetry curriculum here as inflexible, and that has never ...

I hope you are enjoying our Sunday column, “Poetry from Daily Life,” which provides each week the wit, wisdom, and experiences of poets and authorities on poetry. By offering such a rich mix of voices ...

Since Poetry from Daily Life began Nov. 5, you’ve met poets from Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Alabama, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania. We began in one paper — the Springfield News-Leader — now we’re ...

I asked people to send in their thoughts. Most agree with Campbell. This does not surprise me. Over the years I’ve had feedback from readers who would like more rhyme in the poems we run. At the risk ...

For the last eight years, Mancos resident and former Fort Lewis College education professor Lindy Simmons has produced an original two-hour Thursday night variety show involving day performers from ...

Well, this is rich. Or, I should say, riche. It seems I am a master poet / Though no one knew I was a poet. Here’s the story: A few months ago I received several junk e-mail solicitations for an ...

“Rhymes can make sense of the world in a way that regular speech can’t.” Hip hop mogul Jay-Z (Sean Carter) says it better than I can. It’s no coincidence that someone who built a career in rhymes ...

Literary discourse is usually distinguished from conventional expressions of speech and writing. Whether poetry is intuitive or not is a debatable issue. However, there’s no doubt that when poets are ...

In a Sand County Almanac, the great American ecologist Aldo Leopold wrote "one of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds". John Kinsella's new collection ...