The form of a poem is how we describe the overarching structure or pattern of the poem. Some forms of poetry must stick to very specific rules about length, rhythm and rhyme. Poets enjoy playing with ...

What are we going to do with experience? In some poems the very experience of making the poem itself is conveyed, as though the technical impulse, the urge to find the right words, sound patterns and ...

Happy 140th birthday, Robert Frost — you're totally misunderstood. But most people don't realize the great American poet was being ironic when he famously wrote that taking the road less traveled ...