CHICAGO (WLS) -- At a halfway house on Chicago's West Side, there's been a sudden burst of creativity that has to do with putting rhyme and rhythm into troubled lives. For over 60 years, St. Leonard's ...

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 ...

It’s time to rhyme. Take a look and find the kind that sounds sublime. Limericks are funny, five-lined poems. They follow an AABBA rhyming pattern, meaning that the first, second and fifth lines rhyme ...

The self – the introspection and expression thereof are evolving consistently, with their importance in lives being indisputable. Communication forms an integral part of expression – be it verbal or ...

When you grow up reading voraciously, you often develop a tendency to write. While most people write prose and that too fiction, some however opt for a different genre to express themselves, ...

Faith stirs the spoken word poetry. As a teen, Amena Brown listened to hip-hop and dreamed of being the next Lauryn Hill; she even had a stage name, "Teknique." But she never could quite make her ...

What's on view in a terrifically lively show at the Getty Research Institute has gone by various names — concrete poetry is the most common, but also visual poetry, spatial poetry and imaged words, ...

Community members are invited to attend Poetry in Parks, 1-4 p.m. Saturday, April 12 at Alhecama Theatre, 215A E. Canon Perdido St., Santa Barbara. The free family-friendly afternoon will include ...

Narrative means story and a narrative poem tells a story. Lots of poems are mainly about thoughts and feelings and not about telling a story, so this is a key difference. Key features of narrative ...