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Welcome to Poetry world!

Here you can see poetries from around the world and learn about what is poetries and how to make them.

April is Poetry Month, so why don't enjoy fresh spring weather with your favorite poetries?

What is Poetry?

Poetry is "literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm." from Britannica. For thousands years, people have made poetries to convey their feelings, record historical events, and pass down the prove the existence of them.

What types of poetry do you like? Click the each option or the side box to see each description.

Acrostic: 1 votes (33.33%)

Ballad: 0 votes (0%)

Elegy: 1 votes (33.33%)

Free verse: 1 votes (33.33%)

Haiku: 0 votes (0%)

Limerick: 0 votes (0%)

Ode: 0 votes (0%)

Sonnet: 0 votes (0%)

Villanelle: 0 votes (0%)

Total Votes: 3

Project of poem around the world

'Indian Kids Can't Write Sonnets': Re-membering the Poetry of Henry Tinhorn from the Intermountain Indian School by Taylor, Michael P Wride, Terence
Publication Date: 2020-03
The authors introduce how Indian children live and their expressions to make their feelings into poems.

How the Poetry Project Is Platforming Young Refugees in Berlin
Rüger herself is a literature scholar who stumbled upon The Poetry Project at the ilb. Seeing the poems displayed in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, she was inspired and applied to be a part of it. She explains that the workshops allow young people to tell their stories, meet others and build connections.

Poems with history

The Art of Losing—Three Poems for the COVID-19 Pandemic by Campo, Rafael New, Elisa
ISBN: 0098-7484
Publication Date: 2021-01
This Arts and Medicine essay features 3 poems-Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art," Marilyn Chin's "Hospital in Oregon," and Edward Hirsch's "What the Last Evening Will Be Like"-as sources of wisdom and insight in the turmoil and pain of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rummaging Through the Ashes: 9/11 American Poetry and the Transcultural Counterwitness by Moran, Matthew
Publication Date: 2020-07
I explore how these 9/11 poems oppose, and engage with, pervasive patriotism, and emphasize the value of transcultural poetry in the face of extreme violence. The notion of the transcultural counterwitness has the potential to redefine how third-party witnesses, like poets, provide new understandings of historical responsibility and national identity in the American imagination.

ART FROM THE FIRST WORLD WAR FIRST WORLD WAR POEMS FROM THE FRONT
"The First World War Poems from the Front anthology, also from IWM, provides a new approach, focusing on poets who were actually on the frontline. It includes the most famous - Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke - in greater than usual depth, plus rising stars such as Ivor Gurney and Edmund Blunden."
War Poetry- Poetry Foundation
Poems and prose about conflict, armed conflict, and poetry's role in shaping perceptions and outcomes of war.
Finding the Words to Say It: The Healing Power of Poetry
My purpose in this paper is to help you experience for yourself the potential of poetry to heal by feeling its power through your own voice. Finding the words to articulate a traumatic experience can bring relief. The reader will be directed to the scientific evidence of the efficacy of utilizing expressive writing.