‘A big bad bull whipped me down’: cowboy poetry, old art form of the US west, lassos a new generation

From Los Angeles to Nevada, younger people are preserving a longstanding tradition one lyric at a time ...
Publishers Weekly

The Poem That Will Not End: Fun with Poetic Forms and Voices

Joan Bransfield Graham, illus. by Krysten Brooker. Amazon/Two Lions, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4778-4715-2 When a boy is "seized by a rhythmical beat," he extemporaneously crafts poems in response to ...
PBS

Weekly Poem: Mark Ford evokes memory through poetic form

“I’ve looked at pictures, slides my parents took afterwards, and remember how gray and cold and dreary England was in comparison to the vibrant colors of Africa,” said Mark Ford. Born in Nairobi, ...
Quill & Quire

A Friend Sails in on a Poem: Essays on Friendship, Freedom and Poetic Form

Friendship, for poets, has long been grist for the mill. Anyone studying poetry is likely to stumble upon literary friendships – William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge come instantly to mind, ...