Poetry has been an essential part of many countries’ popular culture for centuries. Italy, Russia, Iran, Chile, Poland, and Nicaragua are good examples, to name just a few. In these places, professors ...

Poetry should be celebrated every day of the year, but this World Poetry Day, we'd like to take a moment to introduce you to the world of contemporary poetry - and it's fizzing with new voices ...

My writing during these past five years is filled with memories of my long journey with God over a lifetime; but very ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Design by Evelyn Mousigian. In life and in love, poetry makes every emotion more tangible. Poetry ...

Poem of the Day: ‘To Celia’ Ben Jonson’s love poem, elegant and frail as a bubble, first envisions love as a pledge drunk together, in a spirit more potent and ethereal than any wine. Ben Jonson, ...

For It Takes a Village, ELLE’s latest package exploring the intersection of parenthood and community, poet and author Cleo Wade penned an original poem about the “group work” necessary to ...

Poem of the Day: ‘Love Came Down at Christmas’ Christina Rossetti’s theological seriousness, as well as her gift for the craft of verse, elevates her religious poetry above the level of the simply ...

Once upon a time, many years ago, a young woman pressed her senior prom corsage in a book of Shakespearean love poems. She placed the book on her dressing table next to a framed photo of her with ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Irene Latham, who lives on a lake in rural Alabama. Irene has loved poetry since childhood when her father introduced her to poems by Shel ...

Once upon a time, many years ago, a young woman pressed her senior prom corsage in a book of Shakespearean love poems. She placed the book on her dressing table next to a framed photo of her with ...