Make SFGATE a preferred source so your search results prioritize writing by actual people, not AI. Add Preferred Source Some people seem surprised by the idea that poets do any thinking at all. There ...

Where are the boundaries between adjacent literary forms? When does prose become poetry, poetry become song, song become theater? These bounds are collapsing as contemporary artists experiment. Though ...

Hundreds of writing workshops into my long career, I'm still amazed by one particular phenomenon: Whenever I give a single writing prompt to a group of people — of any age! — they will always come up ...

Caroline Kennedy's latest book comes with an agenda: to encourage a return to poetic memorization and recitation that both families and schools once considered routine. In Poems to Learn by Heart, ...