St. Joseph High School juniors in English teacher Alicia Yrle’s class recently wrote extended metaphor poems as part of an assignment related to the poem “Huswifery “ by Edward Taylor. It compares the ...

When asked to describe her poetry, Jean Prokott said, “It's a loaded question for sure, one that poets are always trying to ...

Song Lin’s poem, translated by Dong Li, primarily uses interesting images to articulate the feelings of a “divided self” and a sense of being everywhere and nowhere at once. The poet left China in the ...

Jan. 14-20 is Idiom Week, and today we thought we’d have a heart-to-heart about some strange phrases we use. Idioms, metaphors and similes are all types of figurative language. According to ...

This post is part 2 of a series. To see the first entry, click here. In my last post, we discussed how literature can force you to become aware of and understand specific things. We considered how ...

My husband and I were having a discussion with some friends last night about how writers write in the world as it is right now. Not really how we write, I said, because we’re like birds that would ...