Haynes Academy for Advanced Studies Literary Journal

This weekend marks the end of National Poetry Month, but our Creative Writing students will soon begin working on their "Final Projects,"...

Edgar Allen Poe is often thought of as the master of the macabre, but his poetry emphasized the importance of light in the face of...

Mr. Windham was particularly pleased to have a student turn in a free verse poem about freedom and limits and rules and chaos. Enjoy...

The primary function of poetry is for the poet to express an emotion and for the reader/listener to feel an emotion. Indeed, one of the...

Poets often use things that we can all relate to in order to express something deeply personal. These 2 poems, by seniors Kaolin Scallan...

Given the freedom to choose the subject matter of their poems, student poets will provide us with a full spectrum of material, from...

Young students often assume that the difference between fiction and poetry is that fiction tells stories and poetry doesn't, but there is...

A teacher has the benefit of being able to look at all of his students' poems both in any given semester as well as over the entirety of...

Many young writers use their art to come to terms with growing up. Indeed, all of our Creative Writing students are either juniors or...

To compare any other writer to Edgar Allan Poe is somewhat unfair, but such a comparison should be seen as a compliment. Sometimes Mr....

Since the dawn of written literature, poetry has been developing visual aspects, to the point that some poetry can't actually be read...

One of the greatest benefits of the development of free verse poetry is that poets are literally free to use rhyme scheme and meter, not...

Sonnets (a type of poetry whose name is a diminutive form of the Italian word for "song") were already an "old" style of poetry when...

In Mr. Windham's Creative Writing class, students learn the traditional hallmarks of classic poetry and practice them, and then they are...

Even Shakespeare wrote a lot about sleep, so it's definitely fair game in this poem by junior Aidyn Cabiro: Sleep Sleep is very precious...

Our Creative Writing students learn that poetry isn't always grand, epic, or romantic. Rather, it can also be happy and sweet or just...

We know that poetry (and all art in general) depends on capturing inspiration, and part of what we learn in Creative Writing class is how...

April is National Poetry Month, and in the month of April, the Spring 2022 Creative Writing Class at Haynes is going to share a new...

Writing poetry is an exercise in creative freedom, but good poetry generally doesn't come by accident. In our Creative Writing class, we...

There's something about the changing of the seasons that lends itself to good poetry. Generally, though, poets use seasons as a starting...