Studying poetry is not as scary as it seems. To many people who have taken an English class in their lives, poetry can seem like a daunting, confusing and incomprehensible task. Sometimes the verse is ...

There’s been an influx of books in recent years on how to, or how not to, read poetry. Why do you think that is? Books on what poetry’s about aren’t new. They’ve been around since the early 19th ...

BETTENDORF -- Public-speaking jitters hit 16-year-old Tiffany Trujillo like a ton of bricks. But with some coaching and care, the Pleasant Valley High School sophomore read her poem, ``My New Best ...

"The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets" by Ted Kooser, University of Nebraska Press, $19.95 What would be wrong with a world in which everybody were writing poems? This ...

What Ted Kooser, 2004-2006 Poet Laureate of the United States, speaks and reads from his work for the library’s 16th Annual Western Book Day When 3 p.m. Saturday, March 5; discussion groups, 1 to 2:30 ...

Poetry 'is a basic pillar of civilisation and an expressive device' Dubai: The deterioration of poetry is just as dangerous a phenomenon as global warming, a researcher claimed on the fourth day of ...