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 ...

“Why bring together two fields that seem to many people so very disparate? What could mathematics and poetry share, except that the mention of either one is sometimes enough to bring an uneasy chill ...

Woodland Pattern Book Center will hold its 18th annual poetry marathon on Saturday, Jan. 28. Dozens of poets and performers once again share their art and their love for independent bookstore Woodland ...

On Saturday, Jan. 26, Woodland Pattern Book Center -- 720 E. Locust St. -- celebrates its 13th annual Poetry Reading Marathon. Anne Kingsberry, Woodland Pattern's executive director, remembers the ...

Every poem has structural features that have a bearing on the way the poem sounds or what it means. To comment on the structure of a poem is just the same as commenting on its language – you notice ...

Returning to Milwaukee to speak at Woodland Pattern Book Center's annual gala on Nov. 17, Jennifer Benka will tell folks that today is both a good time and a necessary time for poetry. She'll also ...

“Poems,” says Conrad Balliet, “are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. They come from an overflow of powerful feelings. The essence of poetry is emotion, and if one has deep feelings, one can ...