To today’s reader, Pastoral poetry and theatrical works from the English Renaissance may remind us more of fairy tales and fables than piece...

"Our Cat’s Fascination With Water" by Al Zolynas utilizes strong images to describe the established morning routine of the speaker...

so many headstones: so many more blades of grass Anna Poplawska In her article "Zen and the Art of Haiku", Anna Poplawska calls ha...

William Shakespeare made frequent use of the Pastoral, both through brief examples within works such as "Love's Labor's Lost...

At various times throughout my life I have had the good fortune to view, participate in, and even direct plays by William Shakespeare (or wh...

Emily Dickinson's "I died for Beauty - but was scarce" is at first glance a "Stanza", however it borrows from the ba...

> In "The Making of a Poem", authors Mark Strand and Eavan Boland call the pantoum, like the villanelle and sestina, "game...