A Muted Blue Star Muses

Ophelia is, like most Shakespeare characters and particularly the women, a complicated part to play. She is sweet, innocent but not unknowle...

The Humanities are defined on vocabulary.com as: "studies about human culture, such as literature, philosophy, and history". Debat...

There is an internet-inspired trend in text analysis that involves computer tools, such as the above word cloud. The theory is that t...

What is collage poetry? The idea is to take an existing text or texts and make it into something new.  The process is also called Unoriginal...

The "Shakespeare In Community" class on Coursera.org opens by discussing briefly the first lines of Hamlet . But what of first li...

(Originally published on Yahoo! Voices on May 24, 2012) Ellyn Maybe is a formidable figure in contemporary American poetry today. Her wor...