Or perhaps you're just taking your first steps into the world of poetry, so none of these ring a bell. That's OK. The beauty of poetry is its universal appeal—the most famous poems ever written ...

The world of poetry is wide—you can dig in to ... “The Road Not Taken” is a famous poem for good reason: Robert Frost offers ...

I promise you that I will make the case below for why poetry is the best genre to start your writing career with ... It might ...

Chief among the insights we gain from reading history is that what we read is often relevant to what we are experiencing ...

This first book-length translation into English of her... Luís de Camões is world famous as the author of the great Renaissance epic The Lusíads, but his large and equally great body of lyric poetry ...

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Those words graphically bring to life a terrifying gas attack on a British trench during the First World War. They’re from one of the most famous poems of the war, “Dulce et Decorum Est” by ...

A writer has become the first woman to win a prestigious prize twice after scooping the award with a poem inspired by grief and Caribbean rituals. Malika Booker's Libation was named best poem at ...

It presents a worked-up example of Simone Weil’s aphorism about “the connections we cannot make.” If poems do not change the outside world, they do, as Williams puts it, “change the landscape of ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I wonder if I will miss the moss,” by Jane Mead, and his own poem “Mother ... borders and legacies of a world at war.

The poems also hint that a baby is on the horizon, and McClure tries to envision how to safely bring a child into such a fallen world, where “at best, I can do an interpretation of justice/ And hope ...