Rhyme and the rhythmical pounding of words will not die, no matter how hard we try to eliminate them. When sophisticated poetry turns against these elements of verse, they bubble up again from below — ...
Not at all, says poet Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and a BBC commentator. "I think it's terrific." Gioia, author of the controversial book Can Poetry Matter?, contends ...
On a January morning in northern Nevada, cowgirl Marinna Mori stood in a snow covered corral beckoning her horse Hollywood with a bucket of grain. At age 10, Mori is the fourth generation to live on ...