As these moving short poems prove, you can work poetry into your daily life. ... a huge upsurge in art and literature in the Black American community in the early 20th century.

Without our dreams, Hughes says in this short yet powerful poem, ... but exploring grief through art and poetry can be transformative. RD.COM, GETTY IMAGES. 14. “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost.

For all his literary output — novels, short fiction, essays, screenplays, lectures, and poems — Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) strikes us now as less a writer than a figure: not merely a figure of the ...

A too-short poem can ruin this effect, the effect of out-of-context-ness. When there is poem-out-of-view, you feel lucky, as if you might have found the bit that matters only to you.