| National Poetry Month | |||
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It’s April, National Poetry Month! Explore haiku, hip hop, sonnets, ghazals and epics — all kinds of poets and poetry all around About.com. |
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| Featured Articles |
| Ancient Poetry | |
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Homer About.com Ancient/Classical History Guide N.S. Gill covers everything you need to know about the life and work of the blind Greek bard who gave us The Iliad and The Odyssey. Sappho — Legendary Greek poetess of love |
| Medieval & Renaissance Poetry | |
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Beowulf — What You Need to Know about the Epic Poem About.com Medieval History Guide Melissa Snell summarizes all the important aspects of Beowulf, the oldest surviving epic poem in the English language and the earliest piece of vernacular European literature — the origins of the poem, the history of the manuscript, the author or authors, the story and characters, the historical impact of the work, and more. About Dante — The Divine Comedy text online, from About.com Italian Language Guide Michael San Filippo |
| New Poetry | |
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Concrete Poetry/VisPo: Poems Take Shape on the Screen A collection of poems in which the art is visual, and the typographical arrangement of letters and words on the page (or on the screen) is as much a part of the poem’s meaning as other more traditional poetic techniques like prosody, meter, and image. Fibonacci Poems — all you need to know about the new math-based poetic form that is proliferating on the Internet, by Georgia Luna Smith Faust. |
| More Poetry Features | ||
| Online poems, poetic forms, poet biographies, poetry history and poetic movements. Check out these other About articles on poetry. |
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