My Poems and Reflections on Heartbreak, Healing, and Hope,' will be released on April 1, 2025. The book is a 'deeply personal ...

What makes contemporary poets so oddly, and even perversely, attracted to Dante Alighieri? Like the scores of acquaintances ...

Nikki Giovanni, MC Lyte, Rakim, and others came together on Saturday to show how vital lyricism is to uplifting minorities ...

When Ephriam David Tyler died in 1969 at age 85, he had written and published his way through three works of poetry that ...

Christian poetry has been defined as “any poetry that contains Christian teachings, themes, or references. The influence of Christianity on poetry has been great in any area that Christianity ...

with the headline “Lines To A World-Famous Poet Who Failed To Complete A World-Famous Poem, Or Come Clean, Mr. Guest!.” Ogden Nash regularly contributed verse to The New Yorker for more than ...

Where to read this sonnet: Poetry Foundation. 2. Sonnet 116: “Let me not to the marriage of true minds.” (1609) Sonnet 116 is arguably one of the most famous love-themed poems ever written.

The poet Semyon Nadson (1862 - 1887) lived for 24 years. He is known for being the first poet of Jewish descent to achieve ...

Writer Alan Katz didn't think poetry was for him. Then he wrote a book or two and learned that poetry is for everyone.

In his justly famous and prophetic poem “The Second Coming,” William Butler Yeats wrote the lines “The best lack all ...

Shel Silverstein was a master of linguistic mischief, using repetition and creative wordplay to amuse and prepare kids for ...

You can usually stir up debate by comparing song lyrics to poetry. As a publication that highlights the exploits of ...