mumbling the words of a half-known poem to myself, sheepishly stopping when a dog walker comes around the corner. Because the process is as simple as it is stultifying, memorizing a great poem ...

Author Matt Forrest Esenwine has some advice for would-be poets and creative types, and it all starts with a question: "What if ...?" ...

Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Griffin Poetry Prize **MANDATORY CREDIT** The Canadian Press: How do you decide how much of yourself to show in a poem? Limon: To be honest, I don’t think it’s a decision.

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

That poem stays in my brain. I say it to myself over and over throughout the last 50, 60 years. LIMBONG: Well, give us a little bit of it. PARINI: Oh, it's very short. The way a crow shook down on ...

Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day," celebrating the ... I was sort of embarrassed that I hadn't thought of it (laughter) myself as the illustrator. COOPER: It's a great idea.

Saaneha means tragedy, a moment that splits time into before and after. It arrives uninvited, heavy and abrupt, leaving ...

I don't think you can get a poem "wrong." And so once I put it out into the world, I let it go. It's a type of freedom really. Mersal: For me, there is no conscious decision to reveal myself ...

I don't think you can get a poem "wrong." And so once I put it out into the world, I let it go. It's a type of freedom really. Mersal: For me, there is no conscious decision to reveal myself — any ...