When children write poetry, they often jump in with only a vague idea then follow where it leads — adults can do that, too, ...

Ben wrote his final poem in October of 2024. He never posted it because he took a fall in the garage and broke his wrist, ...

Washington poet Eric Ode often finds ideas while out walking. Here he shares a poem inspired by the prickly (or not) holly ...

Matthew Arnold’s poems often reflect our search for meaning in life. Arnold’s best buddy at Rugby School and later at Oxford ...

But usually with poems, it’s pretty positive. Anybody who’s being mean on the internet, I would never admire those people, so I find that I can’t be scared of them either.

This week’s guest on “Poetry from Daily Life” is Matt Forrest Esenwine, who lives in Warner, New Hampshire. Matt is an award-winning children’s author and poet who began writing poems when he was 9 ...

Dublin Literary Award winner Michael Crummey on losing his belief in redemption: ‘It feels like a pretty dark time’ ...

Mother's Day is a special occasion. It is a time to appreciate mothers. The article provides a collection of 30 heartwarming poems. These poems expres ...

For 23 years, A.O. Scott was a film critic for the New York Times. For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times ...

Skye Jackson’s debut poetry collection, “Libre,” leads off with a poem that, back in 2021, won her deserved acclaim.

Poems don’t have to be perfect, but this one pretty much is. I mean that less as praise — though it is a long-time favorite — than as a technical description. Not many modern verses are so ...

I thought they would be pretty and instead discovered one man’s neurotic inner monologue annotated over 154 poems. It was like a single long poem, containing infinite mood swings.