Poet laureate of the United States Tracy K. Smith. Credit: Shawn Miller/flickr/CC BY 2.0 Read excerpts of Tracy K. Smith’s poems, “My God, It’s Full of Stars” and “Watershed.” Read excerpts of Rafael ...
St. Joseph High School juniors in English teacher Alicia Yrle’s class recently wrote extended metaphor poems as part of an assignment related to the poem “Huswifery “ by Edward Taylor. It compares the ...
Neil Armstrong’s aspirational metaphor of “one giant leap for mankind” captured and encapsulated a once-in-a-planetary-lifetime moment. Visually, that moment is most famously represented by the ...
Jan. 14-20 is Idiom Week, and today we thought we’d have a heart-to-heart about some strange phrases we use. Idioms, metaphors and similes are all types of figurative language. According to ...
The concrete jungle is on fire. These symbolic flames blaze throughout “No Matter,” a collection of poems by Jana Prikryl. The author paints New York City as a metaphorical inferno burning with deep ...
As a pulmonologist, breath is both my profession and my poetry. Each day, I witness its fragility — how a single breath can steady a frightened patient, how a missed one can overwhelm a family, how a ...
It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...
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