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

Former Missouri Poet Laureate Maryfrances Wagner writes about the inspiration she takes from a favorite poet, Williams Carlos ...

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 ...

Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well ... Read on for the best books of poetry ...

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 ...

An Oxford researcher found a rare, handwritten variation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous love poems. About 400 years ago, ...

Poetry is not the first place many people turn to when discussing characters and character development. Most readers probably think of fiction and maybe creative nonfiction, but poetry? Probably not.

A rare hand-written copy of one of the most famous love poems ever written has been discovered after hundreds of years. Dr Leah Veronese uncovered the version of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 ...