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 ...

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 ...

Poetry is old. Really old. It came into use before written language, originally used as a means to remember history through verbal storytelling. That is why we often feel a rhythm or beat to a poem, ...