Historically, poets have had less to say about pandemics than you might imagine. Hardly any English-language poetry written ...

A poem is a piece of writing that expresses a thought, an emotion or a story. Poems can rhyme, use alliteration or have a rhythm, but they don't have to. These poems contain some sort of counting ...

From classics to modern masterpieces, these great poetry books—recommended by poets themselves—belong on your bookshelf The ...

Now that we have poems available for free on the internet, as well as seemingly countless poets to choose from, it can be challenging to find truly good poetry books. That’s why we’ve talked ...

If you have already had the good fortune of encountering “Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare, you were probably at a wedding.

Here are some questions to help you think about the themes, ideas and attitudes of two poems when making a comparison: Two poems that deal with the theme of family relationships are Walking Away ...

If the Scots here is acrobatic, the English is ... with its good, fun opening line: “Our metaphor container ship is dry-docked”) nicely counterpoint powerful poems of grief, such as May ...