LITTLE POEMS (Everyman’s Library, $18), a new anthology edited by Michael Hennessy, provides a history of short poems since antiquity, from Sappho to Ocean Vuong, a lovely pocket-size volume ...

He was particularly expert on two kinds of poems — really short ones and really long ones. Here’s “Beautiful Woman,” a great example of the former from his 1996 collection “Brink Road”: ...

Short poems take center stage in former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins' new collection, Musical Tables. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with the poet about his work and finding beauty in a couple of lines.

When Abel Debritto first started researching and writing about Charles Bukowski, he knew that the prolific underground poet, short story writer and novelist, who had written thousands of poems in ...

This short and sweet poem about friendship by John Keats is like a breath of fresh air in a world of cheesy roses are red poems. ... You to be kind, to open up your heart a little more, I’m sure ...