Imagine engineering students writing poetry. “It’s almost a paradox,” says Danny Long, an instructor in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at CU Boulder. Long’s Radical Science Writing course ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By David Orr RHYME’S ROOMS The Architecture of Poetry By Brad Leithauser If you write about poetry, ...

In Gilbert & Sullivan’s “The Pirates of Penzance,” the pirate king interrupts the action by suddenly declaring “What, we ask, is life without a touch of poetry in it?” At which, the entire cast kneels ...