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. __Of Helen, Menelaus, war, Achilles, Paris and his treachery, __Of Agamemnon, Troy, and more, I wrote the Iliad and Odyssey. __Of Saracens...

. A Summary of Oedipus the King by Sophocles, and Notes This play, no doubt to Sophocles’ surprise, When first...

Originally published in The Epoch Times by James Sale Very recently, I hosted a live online poetry event for New...

American historian Victor Davis Hanson and Canadian professor Jordan Peterson recently commented on the decline of American universities. Though they...

. For teachers seeking a quick solution, see 10 Great Poems for Teaching in High School Classrooms. Introduction to Poetry...

. A Teaching Tool for High School English Language Arts or Global History Teachers by Evan Mantyk . Background of...

  Why are many young persons so bad at writing formal poetry? Why do they struggle and labor and twist...

  A not infrequent problem that a poetry editor must face is a contributor’s intransigence. Sometimes this resistance is on...

by Michael Curtis | excerpted from Occasional Poetry Tradition grows from wisdom, from the accumulated experience of millennia; in poetic...

  Better Than Starbucks Sonnet Contest Accepting Submissions Beginning: October 1, 2020 Deadline: December 1, 2020 Top Prize: $100 Submission...

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by T.M. Moore I had just finished teaching one of the adult classes at our church on the meaning of...

A truncated quatrain is a form I have invented in an attempt to find some appropriate English form similar—for its...

Winners announced here! Write a short poem that begins with one line from any Shakespeare play or poem. The poem...

April 18, 2019 is Poem in Your Pocket Day, part of National Poetry Month. On this day, people are encouraged...

Note: Teaching classical poetry rather than other forms of poetry or modern literature makes a difference. Inherent in classical poetry...

  Who Killed Poetry? A Critique of Modernism and Post-Modernism (Part I) by Edward C. "Ted" Hayes A Prefatory Poem...

Thank you to everyone who participated! We have had more quality submissions this year than in any past year and...

  These twain ephem’ral lives were fraught with woes When they, a boy and girl in morn of life, Defied...

by James A. Tweedie My interest in Sapphic verse arose from a discussion thread on an SCP post some months...

by Evan Mantyk Where is Homer? The epic poems of the famous Greek bard were the cornerstone of education for...

  “Let glorious acts more glorious acts inspire, And catch from breast to breast the noble fire!" —The Iliad, Homer,...

by Dusty Grein Like many of the old French refrain forms, the kyrielle originated in the 15th century with the...

By James A. Tweedie Call me a snob but I am generally attracted to what is commonly referred to as...

  When naming things, you have to use a noun; A verb shows action or a state of being. An...

  by James Green “Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove That...

April 26 is Poem in Your Pocket Day, part of National Poetry Month. On this day, people are encouraged to...

By David B. Gosselin William Shakespeare (baptized April 26, 1564 - died April 23, 1616) is arguably the greatest writer...

by Lew Icarus Bede "A sonnet is a coin: its face reveals The soul—its converse, to what Power 'tis due:...

By Carter Davis Johnson In a period where American literature was considered peripheral and amateur, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) helped create...

Homer’s Iliad I.1-47. Translation in the epic hexameter, the meter of the Greek. Sing of the wrath, my goddess, of...

by Dusty Grein The Man The American poet Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, CA....

By C.B. Anderson Anyone writing formal poetry today has to be grateful for the arsenal of fixed forms—most of them...

  It could be a horse thief, or maybe a rustler, A card shark, a pimp, or a sleazy-eyed hustler....

  Three children stood below a tree That sprouted fruit abundantly; They sought to seize the luscious fruit, These hungry...

Click here to read Part I. Montague (That afternoon, on the outskirts of Verona, at a Club, getting in an...

We are pleased to announce the release of a new publication from The Society of Classical Poets titled How to...

  Heaven Smiles for Falun Gong O you who stand so strong through wind and rain, So like those statues...

By Sandeep Kumar Mishra and Evan Mantyk English poetry has a rich history dating back at least 1,400 years. Looking...

If Romeo Had Received the Letter Part I Romeo (in the catacomb, lying down beside Juliet) The friar’s note said:...