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International Festival of Poetry American poetry portal
Reading and interpretation: “The Onset” by Robert Frost
“Forsythia”
An image of Joy Harjo, a Native American woman, imposed on a background of a notebook. A blue arrow points to Harjo with the label "poet laureate."
classical poetic metre rhythmic metre
Learn about the love poetry written by Vittoria Colonna, Gaspara Stampa, and Lady Mary Wroth during the Renaissance
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The Literary World
Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry
4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
Famous Poets and Poetic Form
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
Poetry: First Lines
Emily Dickinson, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right
Emily Dickinson
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Spanish poet and novelist Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547 - 1616), the author of 'Don Quixote de la Mancha', ca. 1590. An artist's impression since there are no contemporary likenesses of Cervantes.
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Reading and interpretation: “The Onset” by Robert Frost
What do a frog and a poet have in common? Ask Robert Frost.
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Joy Harjo explains the job of poet laureate
From 2019 to 2022, Joy Harjo held the role of U.S. poet laureate.
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Learn about the love poetry written by Vittoria Colonna, Gaspara Stampa, and Lady Mary Wroth during the Renaissance
An introduction to the love sonnets of the female poets of the Renaissance, including...
Video: Courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library; CC-BY-SA 4.0 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

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International Festival of Poetry
Poems hanging from an outdoor poetry line during the annual International Festival...
Christiane St-Pierre, Festival International de la Poesie
“Forsythia”
“Forsythia” (1966), by Mary Ellen Solt, is an example of concrete poetry, a genre...
By permission of Mary Ellen Solt
classical poetic metre
Classical poetic metre in music.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
rhythmic metre
Classification of rhythmic metre in music.
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American poetry portal
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