So where should you start for the best poems about life and all its ups and downs? Make your way through this list, and ...

One of America’s foremost Black poets, Hughes writes that dreams are essential to a happy life. That the powerful play goes ...

This poem is about Aunt Jennifer’s constrained life and eventual death ... April is National Poetry Month, and the Books newsletter is the best way to keep up with our coverage.

For instance, the poem Ok Sim's Life reflects the experience of Ok Sim, focusing on the struggles and triumphs of a woman embodying the characteristics of Jeju's haenyeo lifestyle (female divers).

Let's begin with a poem about poetry itself. In Words, written in 1909, Yeats acknowledged that some of his best writing was inspired by (often self-inflicted) emotional turmoil, exploring how ...

Among Rossetti’s best known poems is this short work about ... of The Twelve Days Of Christmas as a song, but it started life as a poem. Here, just to make sure you know all the gifts you ...

live in the present as best you can. To this end, and true to its title, there is no shortage of indulgence in “Ecstasy.” The characters in these poems party hard; there is plenty of sex and ...

In 1885, the Cavafys returned to Alexandria, where Constantine would spend the rest of his life, from the age of ... even requested one of his most famous poems, Ithaca, to be read at her funeral.

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Charles ... perhaps the best answer would be to simply share an example of how I got an idea and how I developed it into a poem.

Seamus Heaney was born on this day, April 13, 1939, in Castledawson in Co Derry. What better way to celebrate the famous Irish poet's life than by revisiting his "When All The Others Were Away at ...