Sharon Kernot knows how to make a pressing, potent, aching song from a stanza of free verse lines – and how to make a page of ...

When I teach speechwriting – like I’ll be doing again this semester as part of my course in Professional Writing – I tell my students to avoid using quotations from obscure philosophers, great writers ...

The earliest surviving fragments of the epic poem—the subject of Christopher Nolan's latest Hollywood blockbuster—date back ...

What does it mean that so many distinguished and gifted poets responded to the somewhat goofy games and assignments suggested by The Paris Review for this issue? Not just willingly, but with spirit, ...

Thanksgiving often inspires us to get a little poetic. Thinking and speaking about the things we’re grateful for is a time-honored tradition, but it can be hard to put those feelings into words.

Poems are usually accepted for the Foley Poetry Award every year between Jan. 1 and March 31. Please visit americamedia.submittable.com for full details. Each entrant is asked to submit only one ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

I remember the first time I picked up Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends in my elementary school library. It was filled with delightfully clever and funny rhymes, and the words danced off my ...

Literary Devices defines alliteration as: “A stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series.” Does alliteration have to use the ...

The Nation welcomes unsolicited poetry submissions. You may send up to three poems at a time, but no more than 6 poems a year. No previously published works, please. Submissions can be sent via ...