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

In four new collections, a frank look at disability, a celebration of domestic life (and dogs), a gathering of hushed moments ...

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

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).

Read on for the best Christmas poems of the year ... adults to “be children also for to-day.” The poem serves as a reminder that life is short and that rather than sitting alone thinking ...

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 ...

I was caught off-guard for a second, then I thought 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. I picked one of my most ...

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 ...

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 ...