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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...