The unemployment form, with its insults and banalities, is an object of unhappy necessity. The poetic form, however, resists the other’s requirements.

Born in Nairobi, Kenya, Ford only lived there until the age of 4, but the move from Kenya to England stuck with him. From his memories of that time in his life, the poet crafted a pantoum, "which ...

Poetic thinking, for Vendler, is embodied in form: One gets at the ideas not by moving from the particular poems to a more abstract consideration of their "content" and "themes," but rather by ...

Many people who dislike contemporary poetry say they prefer work with rhyme and meter, while those who prefer free verse often abhor the constraints of fixed forms. A Little Book on Form, by ...

Learn how to understand open and closed form in poetry with this KS3 English guide for students aged 11-14 from BBC Bitesize.

Aficionados of the short poem gathered Monday at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York to celebrate the form at the Stephen Crane Festival of the Short Poem.

Opinion: “When instapoets claim their work is synonymous with poetry, it damages the reputation of poetry overall, stripping it of its beautiful intricacies,” writes Hailey Furilla.