My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Timothy Rasinski, who lives in Stow, Ohio. Tim was told he was a good writer during his master’s degree program. However, his writing is not poetry, but ...

“Music is like poetry is like Shakespeare is like me,” I wrote in my polka-dotted notebook while watching a performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5. I was on a field trip with my Humanities ...

Fred Lerdahl proposes a theory of the sounds of poetry conceived in musical terms.

Critics often treat the bibliography of a poet like a phone number, chunking the output into smaller units, marking shifts that occur over the arc of a life. There is the early work, the mature work, ...

Readings from his new poetry collection, “Damn Good Cookie,” at Auntie’s Bookstore, 402 W. Main Ave., at 7 p.m. Saturday. Admission is free. It’s a Wednesday night at Neato Burrito, the downtown ...

Prosody has to do with where stress falls in a poetic line. But teaching students how to unlock the rhythms of a poem had Hugh Roberts stressed out. So last year, the assistant professor of English at ...