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Alan Michael Parker's anthology demonstrates the fiction power of poets as they invent biography and poetry in the mode of the heteronym.

Teaching poetry to teenagers is often as successful as the poets one selects. These three Canadian poets appeal to high school students with their language and content.

Southern writing has never lacked imagination. But this anthology of fiction and poetry plumbs even deeper into the dream world and is not for the faint of heart.

John Duncklee, a prolific writer of novels, nonfiction books, articles, and poetry, won the 2008 Spur Award from Western Writers of America for Best Western Poem.

Poetry is an important genre to introduce to young children. It increases their intelligence, responds to their innate sense of rhythm and solidifies parental bonds.

In a beautiful melding of poetry and art, poet Billy Collins has edited a book of poems inspired by birds, and Illustrated by naturalist David Allen Sibley.

Teachers can reinforce letter-sound relationships, develop reading skills, and provide essential practice with oral language skills through the use of a poetry workshop.

Choosing which books a reading group will focus their attention on is an essential part of planning a book club. Here's some tips to make the selection process easy.

Many memorable poets did their best writing during the decades of the 1920s and 1930s.

In this, one of his final novels, Jack Kerouac confronts the dualities of pessimism and optimism, attempting to locate the tangible mid-ground

It is human nature to wonder how one will be remembered after one's death. Hardy's speaker dramatizes his speculations in rhetorical questions.

An inexpensive but thoughtful gift for the holidays can help keep things friendly between you and your roommate. Here are some ideas.

Philip Larkin's "This Be The Verse" which opens "They f*** you up, your mum and dad", is a careful and ironic comment on the problems of both family life and and poetry

T. S. Eliot has written some of the literary world's most horrid descriptions of city life. The horror is, however, in the mind of the beholder as it is with beauty.

This story, like many other classic fairy tales, has been the basis for many contemporary interpretations. Some are quite innovative.

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Algernon Charles Swinburne's A Forsaken Garden likens a neglected cliffside garden, ravaged by the passage of time, to the loss of innocence, love and life.

Research on teaching poetry reveals methods both to encourage more reading and writing of poetry and to increase students' abilities to analyze poetry well.