Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Emily Dickinson, as scholars agree, was something of a free spirit– not just because of her unusual use of punctuation and spelling. She was born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830. Having been educated at Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, she developed an interest in the sciences and botany […]
Therapists, teachers, and self-help books are increasingly encouraging creative writing, such as journaling and writing poetry, as a means of expressing emotions, articulating thoughts, analyzing memories, and communicating with others. According to Jennifer Wolkin, PhD, “Poetry gives us [a] way to speak about the unspeakable.” Poetry can plumb the memories […]
“The writing of a book may be a solitary business…it is done alone. The writer sits down with paper and pen, or typewriter, and, withdrawn from the world, tries to set down the story that is crying to be written. We write alone, but we do not write in isolation. […]
So many word-loving teenagers who could, with practice, become great poets give up in middle school because they believe writing poetry is just too hard. From the myriad of poetic terms introduced in English classes—metaphor, pentameter, tyrannosaur—it truly appears so. I fear so many writers are scared away from poetry […]
Many writers have written poetry about their pets, and who can blame them? Animals are a constant source of inspiration, entertainment, and adoration, especially when they so conveniently live in our houses. Among the many poems that could have been chosen, the poems here are renowned for their famous authors […]