So grab a handful of candy corn, pour yourself a ice cold glass of apple cider, and get ready to enjoy these five Halloween ...

Have you ever compared someone ... “How do I love thee?/ Let me count the ways.” Quite possibly one of the most well-known poem openings ever, it comes from Elizabeth Barratt’s How Do ...

Readers who enjoy reflective poems will like this one. Where to read: You can read “The Bells” at All Poetry. Poe’s unnerving Ligeia is a grotesque short story that blurs the lines between ...

Depending on which Shakespeare scholar you ask, the gesture is either platonic ... and the now-deceased Laura. The short poem mixes his love and grief for both people, his beloved and his friend.

If that’s you today ... one of the most lucid poems about sadness and loneliness I have ever come across. It also belies simplistic judgments about mental illness. I love the imagery swirling ...

For Stephanie, this debut is more than a milestone; it symbolizes her journey of self-discovery toward following her calling ...

Once upon a time, many years ago, a young woman pressed her senior prom corsage in a book of Shakespearean love poems. She ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. Mark Leidner’s poem ...

Once upon a time, many years ago, a young woman pressed her senior prom corsage in a book of Shakespearean love poems. She placed ... “Let me press the rose for you,” I suggested to Sara.