Poetry is bringing the Charleston community together during the coronavirus crisis. On April 16, Charleston Scene published an issue of poems written about (or because of) the coronavirus. The issue, ...
What weeping face is that looking from the window? Why does it stream those sorrowful tears? Is it for some burial place, vast and dry? Is it to wet the soil of graves? This poem is written in free ...
The restrictions of rhyming have long frustrated poetry students. So learning how to write free verse poetry was a revelation for third-graders at Freeman's Mill Elementary School. Suddenly there was ...
When children's author Jacqueline Woodson began capturing memories of her childhood in free verse poems, she never expected the poems to evolve into a thick memoir, let alone attract national ...
The cultural, emotional, and sensory aspects of the human experience are reflected by food as an effective metaphor in literature. Let’s read some free verse style poems that will describe the dishes ...
The cultural, emotional, and sensory aspects of the human experience are reflected by food as an effective metaphor in literature. Let’s read some free verse poems that will describe the dishes from ...