Teens

William Blake was a poet and printmaker born in London in the mid-1700s during the Romantic era. Blake lived and worked at a time of great social and political changes, including...

A.R. Ammons was a gifted and prolific poet who published dozens of books in his lifetime and twice won the National Book Award. He was born in rural North Carolina and...

A few questions to consider, on your own in writing, or in discussion with others: What does it mean to be grateful? What does it look like? What does it mean...

An ode is a formal, often ceremonious lyric poem that addresses and often celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea. However, odes can take many shapes—they can be formal or...

An introduction to the poetic revolution that brought common people to literature’s highest peaks.

A letter, a list, a sonnet, and the state of a nation.

Bridging two languages and generations in one intricate poem.

An introduction to the monumental artistic movement that changed poetry forever.

An introduction to poets of the experimental college that helped revolutionize mid-century poetics.

An introduction to a newly personal mode of writing that popularized exploring the self.