It’s cheap, it’s shockingly easy, and it’s disproportionately impressive. English-speaking culture has canonized the sonnet as the greatest expression of love, because English-speaking culture has a ...

People who do freelance writing often struggle with these three questions when choosing a model: "Is it okay to have the ...

you may be pushing it comparing the best of rap to sonnets: the purpose of the two things is so different that any comparison is surely moot. but i am prepared to say that it is certainly MUCH harder ...

Using a classical model leaves a well-structured poem resonating both backward and forward in history in ways that a free verse sonnet cannot. Traditional or classical poets usually adhere to more ...

With schools closed from the pandemic, the young men from Pennsylvania’s Gregory the Great Academy, where my grandson Michael is a freshman, are taking their lessons via distance learning from their ...

The sonnet was probably invented by Giacomo da Lentini, a Sicilian, and popularized by poet Francesco Petrarca (see Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki ...