Another of Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets, “Sonnet 130” is a funny twist on love poems and the clichéd idealization of a ...

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In “Annabel Lee,” Poe again focuses on the death of a young, beautiful woman and this poem is considered the last complete poem that he composed. In this piece, the narrator blends darkness ...

Sometimes we all need a cathartic cry. If that’s you today, then give these beautiful and moving poems, selected by women including Judi Dench, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Elena Ferrante ...

Poets.org: Welcome to the Guest Editor Q&A, hosted by the Academy of American Poets. I’m Mary Sutton, senior content editor at the Academy, and I’m here today with the Guest Editor for November, Laura ...

The rock icon who stumped hard for Vice President Kamala Harris kicked off his Toronto show on Wednesday (Nov. 6) with a ...

A May Swenson poem that equates one’s body with “a good bright dog ... It begins with a friend who wryly points out how all ...

Where to read this sonnet: Poetry Foundation. 6. Sonnet 20: “A woman’s face with ... but as the sonnet progresses, there’s a beautiful shift in tone, one that is hopeful and changes from ...

It was a beautiful day, the kind of day that makes it a privilege to live in the Midwest. Tree leaves were yellow, orange, ...

The poems find peace in from the natural world, in the biblical gospels and psalms, and in spaces where things are made by ...

In Woman's Hour, Helen Mort read a new poem ... quite literally." Next up, some beautiful Victorian poetry. In a letter from 1878 Hopkins wrote: "The Hurrahing sonnet was the outcome of half ...