Her poem “Love and Friendship” offers a more realistic ... playing with a melodic rhyme scheme and alliteration to show the ...

Congratulations to Sarah Costin, first-place winner in the Rhyming Poetry category of the 93rd Annual Writer's Digest Writing ...

and thus her own happiness. The poems traded between Speranza and Giulia are brighter, exhibiting an abundance of love and admiration. In one pair of sonnets, written playfully yet impressively with ...

Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem ... love poem. Instead of placing his mistress on a pedestal with over-the-top comparisons, he chooses a more realistic, down-to-earth description instead ...

I love to be onstage and help people feel delighted ... How do you think the Holy Spirit is working in you when you’re rhyming? I feel the Spirit work in my joy. I don’t always know where it’s going, ...

We present an extract from The Irish Writers Handbook 2025, the essential guide to writing and getting published, with ...

By the 18th century, Urdu became a well-developed language with a body of literature that consisted mainly of poetry ... together by the rhyming end words. It allows the poet the freedom to move from ...

Love Sechrest has gifted us with ... Sechrest frequently identifies this model with “rhyming”: identifying appropriate analogies between biblical texts and contemporary questions. She models her ...

Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right now. It’s called “Party Politics,” but it’s not ...