What is poetry?

One cannot be "taught" to enjoy something. However, I think it is impossible to pass judgement on whether you enjoy something or not if you simply cannot comprehend it. In my English class at school, I struggle with reading old poetry - by...

http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/gamahuch/antipoet.html Anti-poetry wash way the centuries of creative straight jacketing by the established 'critiques of poetry" accumulated from the past to the present. The present day fashionable 'critiques of...

That there is poetry is the only evidence that man truly exists The Latin American poet quoted above was wise beyond his years. He had the luxury of participating in a culture that still prized the power of the written word as incantation. A machine...

That there is poetry is the only evidence that man truly exists The Latin American poet quoted above was wise beyond his years. He had the luxury of participating in a culture that still prized the power of the written word as incantation. A machine...

From the Garden to the Street: 300 Hundred Years of Poetry for Children Styles (1998), says that children's poetry is undefinable, although she argues that children's poetry would not include what may be appropriate for adults due to their life experiences...

I've never been interested in poetry, and for the most part never understood it, but I'm hoping to broaden my horizons and try again. What poet or collection of poems would be a good introduction into the world of poetry?

What do you think of erotic poetry that use such explicite language about sex and female parts Is it appropirate for poetry to be so explicite or should erotic poetry be more decorous. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS POETRY DOES IT TURN YOU ON at this site...

The author argues that anti-poetry is the abuse of languge and the over throwing of all literary conventions. He argues that anti-poetry is all about destroying language so as to reinvent new poetry and forms. Language is to abused grammar and syntax...

I wrote this poem for an over-the-summer school assignment, and I need to identify its form. Perhaps it would have been smart to plan this beforehand, but... I didn't. Here's the poem: Ashes to ashes— but I told you I was scared of flames, told...