Interest in Australian poetry has dipped significantly since ‘The Man from Snowy River’. Why is this? And how can we get it ...

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.

The recently discovered copy of Sonnet 116 "reads as a political love song" during England's Civil Wars, according to the ...

Many important ancient Greek women—poets, philosophers, and leaders— defied norms and shaped history for generations.

From classics to modern masterpieces, these great poetry books—recommended by poets themselves—belong on your bookshelf The ...

[Photo provided to China Daily] In 1940, at the age of 22, he wrote Meigui Zhi Ge (Song of the Rose) at a time when he was ... to him writing of the famous modernist poem Senlin Zhi Mei (The ...

Pat Ingoldsby, beloved poet and TV presenter, has died at 82, leaving behind a rich legacy in Irish literature ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career ... Take, for instance, the famous penultimate line of 1913’s “Mowing”: “The fact is the sweetest dream that labor ...

If you have already had the good fortune of encountering “Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare, you were probably at a wedding.

Favorite poem: “[The famous poets came for us]” Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong This is only my second article for the site and it, too, features Ocean Vuong! Can you tell I’m a fan?