Do you hear a regular beat da-DUM, da-DUM? This rhythm is very common in poetry and it even has a name: it’s called iambic. Poets often choose to write in this rhythm. Rhythm can help to strengthen ...

Bermudian poet Alan C. Smith is swiftly gaining a reputation as a cat poet, but his cat poems are never cutesy, tend to be fully clawed, and are rarely about cats at all. Some of Mr. Smith?s cat poems ...

This interview originally aired on Jan. 29, 2022. Lillian Allen is a groundbreaking artist in spoken word, poetry and dub. Allen is one of the leading creative Black feminist voices in Canada, a ...

Critics often treat the bibliography of a poet like a phone number, chunking the output into smaller units, marking shifts that occur over the arc of a life. There is the early work, the mature work, ...

Poetry and song were once the same: The first poems were recited to music played on the lyre. (It's the source of the word "lyric.") Today, poems are published in books and journals, while songs are ...

This piece was written by Evelyn Bradley, a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) consultant based in Charlottetown and a regular contributor to CBC P.E.I. For information about CBC's First Person ...