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

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.

In her new poem "At The Parkway Deli" poet and transgender activist Stephanie Burt reflects on a moment in her childhood that ...

If you have read The Lord of the Rings, there is a good chance ... hundreds of poems throughout his life, running the gamut from playful limericks to lengthy verse epics in Old English ...

but rather to poems about love gone wrong (I doubt I’m alone in this). Something in me resists the straightforward glow of good love, in poetic form, perhaps because its purity is so difficult ...

“Poetry allows people to look at hard subjects in a more emotional way,” said Johnson. “It allows for us to approach subjects ...

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 ...