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 strengthen ...

Poetry and song were once the same: The first poems were recited to music played on the lyre. (It's the source of the word "lyric.") Today, poems are published in books and journals, while songs are ...

Bermudian poet Alan C. Smith is swiftly gaining a reputation as a cat poet, but his cat poems are never cutesy, tend to be fully clawed, and are rarely about cats at all. Some of Mr. Smith?s cat poems ...

When Andrea Gibson was in college, the poet was required to read a couple of original poems in class in order to graduate. “That was one of the most excruciating experiences of my life,” Gibson says. ...

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This piece was written by Evelyn Bradley, a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) consultant based in Charlottetown and a regular contributor to CBC P.E.I. For information about CBC's First Person ...