In the mountains, there you feel free. I read ... the full 434-line poem in one of Eliot's poetry collections—and a bleak ...

reminds us here (and in the full poem) that fulfillment in life is not always some exaggerated tale of breaking free from everything. Sometimes work and duty, when performed earnestly, can bring ...

When I came back from Iraq, I carried with me the images of landscapes littered with ruined bodies. To deal with the stew of ...

free verse poems don't follow any obvious rules. Instead they often follow the rhythms of natural speech. So that's the way that we speak in everyday life with our friends and family.

The internet has more love poems that you could shake a diamante ... Sometimes, the best things in life come short, sweet and simple - as with this lovely little offering from Rainer Maria Rilke.

Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right ... He’ll never be the life of the party, and you may wonder why anyone invited him in the first place.

My Poems and Reflections on Heartbreak, Healing, and Hope,' will be released on April 1, 2025. The book is a 'deeply personal' collection of poems that she started writing during 'a dark place' in her ...

Former Missouri Poet Laureate William Trowbridge's "seriocomic" ode to Missouri includes plenty of references you'll ...

“It was kind of a leap of faith, going, ‘Huh, we’ll see if I can do this,’ because I have not taken poetry classes. I don’t study poetry. I don’t practice it at home,” Curtis Kaiser sai ...

MARINA opens up to PEOPLE about the writing process behind her new poetry book, 'Eat the World,' which is out now.

"Southern Voices," edited by Tom Mack and Drew Geyer, is an anthology of "sense of place" poems from Southern writers, including SC's Glenis Redmond, Ed Madden ...