So many of her poems are about things that kids pay a lot of attention to, like bees and insects and snakes and death,” Pierce Bonifaz said. “So it was really easy for the students to have a ...

It’s possible to study more “conventional” and “archaic” kinds of poetry at Kenyon. I mean, I took a class on Chaucer my sophomore year, where I voraciously read rhyming epics about talking birds. I ...

Explore Matthew Cooperman's poetry and climate consciousness at Colorado State University through his latest collection.

Our discussion of flat adverbs continues today as we, firstly, add more examples. I hope you remember what flat adverbs are: those that do not carry -ly. Rather, they have the same forms as adjectives ...

Adverbs are of different types. Among such are adverbs of manner (like smoothly, awkwardly and loudly) and those of time (today, yesterday and now). But there is a type not commonly taught: the one ...

I initially had no idea if I would have anything to say about President Michael D Higgins’s new spoken poetry project, Against All Certainty, but after a day absorbed in it this is what I want to say: ...

Newly translated letters reveal the inner life of Paul Celan, offering clues to his enigmatic poems. By Adrian Nathan West Adrian Nathan West is the author of the novel “My Father’s Diet” and a ...

You know those words that describe how you do something, quickly, loudly, carefully? Those are called adverbs of manner, and they’re some of the most useful adverbs ...

William Christie receives funding from the Australian Research Council for research into an entirely unrelated topic. If someone asked you how you felt and you said you had “a sense sublime of ...