If the audience laughs, it's a comedy. If they nod with new understanding, it's a drama. If they laugh and nod but can't say why it's funny or what they've understood, it might be A Play Is A Poem, ...

From third grade through sixth grade, I walked to school pretty much every day. There were a few different routes I could take, but all of them started the same way — out the front door, down the ...

"'Poem to Play' operates within what might be described as flash: not necessarily insight, but a moment of unexpected alternative, or alternation-a suddenly-something-else across your vision or ...

If you think poetry is a lofty art form accessible only to the intellectual elite, think again. The Poetry Center wants to get ’em while they’re young. Saturday morning was this semester’s final ...

If you don’t like poetry, maybe you’ve been reading it wrong. So says Don Bialostosky. In his new book, the University of Pittsburgh literature professor contends that the reason more people don’t ...

The poem (below) was written by Paddy McArdle in April after he had been to see the show, and while the letter also deals with the play, our resident graphologist is still deciphering its contents.I ...

“It was simultaneously terrifying and exhilarating,” Gulotta said of the transition from her blog “Cooking After Five,” to her new literary food blog, “Eat This Poem,” in January of 2012. “It’s a ...

Ethan Coen’s “A Play Is a Poem” is having its world premiere at Los Angeles’ Mark Taper Forum this month. The five one-acts that make up the work represent distinct genres and time periods, and they ...