Aristotle’s Poetics has arguably influenced modern culture more than any other ancient text. The Greek philosopher’s 4th century BCE treatise on what constitutes the best form of poetry is our ...

In Poetics, Aristotle codified the structure of Western narrative and introduced us to the idea of a recognition moment—that point in a story where all of a sudden we understand what is going on, and, ...

In his Poetics, Aristotle argued that art, particularly tragedy, imitates life and has the power to evoke emotions like pity and fear, leading to catharsis. Aristotle introduced the idea of hexis ...

Founded in 1991 by Charles Bernstein, Robert Creeley, Raymond Federman, Susan Howe, and Dennis Tedlock, the Poetics Program developed out of the vision of UB English Professor (and sometime Chair) ...