We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean love poems? Something longer ...

Whether you’re searching for laughs on April Fools’ Day or a witty poem to share with loved ones year-round, keep reading for the best funny poems guaranteed to bring a smile to anyone’s face!

As an esteemed poet and a retired professor of philosophy at UW-Milwaukee, John Koethe kept those two worlds separate. “I ...

Let’s take a moment to admire the needlework of the poem — what we might call, to quote another famous poem about a tiger (William Blake’s “The Tyger”), its fearful symmetry. Every ...

April is National Poetry Month, a time to celebrate the beauty and power of poetry. This monthlong celebration, established ...

Worried poetry might put Grandma to sleep too early? We’ve got you covered with both short poems and excerpts, as well as underappreciated works. Read on for the best Christmas poems of the year ...

I was caught off-guard for a second, then I thought perhaps the best answer would be to simply share an example of how I got an idea and how I developed it into a poem. I picked one of my most ...

today i rode / past five police cars / & i can tell you about it.” In that poem’s first stanza, Smith introduces an unsettling image: “on the bad nights, i wake to my mother / shoveling dirt ...