Over the centuries, so many technical rhetorical terms have become their own false cognates that while these terms continue to circulate in every day language, our general awareness of the ars rhetorica seem to be lost....

We will always need to read Jorie Graham, and to read her closely, if we want to understand the last 40 years of poetry in America....

Despite its oppression under the Taliban and beyond, the ancient culture of landay poetry persists in Afghanistan today, practiced almost exclusively by women....