Or perhaps you're just taking your first steps into the world of poetry, so none of these ring a bell. That's OK. The beauty of poetry is its universal appeal—the most famous poems ever written ...

George Oppen’s “From a Photograph” turns a wintry snapshot into a moving meditation on parenthood and the passage of time.

To mark World Poetry Day, we’ve collected the stories ... in the late19th and early 20th century. If was his most famous poem, published in 1910 and written in the form of advice passed down ...

Such foreshadowing, of course, is never good news in the literary world of romantic poetry, and Bess has to make a brave sacrifice to save her love. Noyes uses clever and vivid imagery to tell the ...

One of the best things about poetry is how it helps us make sense of the world we live in. And thanks to the rise of social media, poetry is now more accessible than ever. On Instagram in ...

Going into the March 30 International Reggae And World Music Awards (IRAWMA), Marcia Jackson is defending champion in the ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two invigorating releases by Diane Seuss and a dark, posthumous collection by ...

Among Rossetti’s best known poems is this short work about one of the plants most associated with the Christmas season. Our idea of what Santa Claus looks like comes from a variety of places ...

Harrison If you are a beginning writer or one who has spent months or years gathering the images needed to write a poem, the first advice you probably received is that you will write best what you ...