From the introduction to a new edition of Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, which was published last month by Picador. More than half a century after Tom Wolfe’s… ...
Its significant highs have included the 50s jazz club beat poets 'Ginsberg' era; the 60s pop poets, the punk poets of the 70s, the art school poets of the 80s and now it finds itself in the midst ...
Do you hear a regular beat da-DUM, da-DUM? This rhythm is very common in poetry and it even has a name: it’s called iambic. Poets often choose to write in this rhythm. Rhythm can help to ...
Many of the poems were punctuated by an infectious beat, encouraging the audience to tap their feet and nod their heads along to the rhythm. Freshman Chinua Thelwell's two poems, "French Fried Yam ...