Friendship poems to celebrate your bestie Birthdays are fantastic occasions, but who says you can’t celebrate friendship any ...

Thanksgiving poems full of gratitude Thanksgiving often inspires us to get a little poetic. Thinking and speaking about the ...

Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon epic poem about the defeat of Grendel – a creature whose exact form is still debated. Depending on ...

Babb’s observations of rural poverty, particularly during the Depression and the Dust Bowl, would filter through the ...

To capture their experiences, Save the Children invited children from countries around the world to write short poems about COVID-19, life under lockdown, and how the pandemic has changed their lives.

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

Musicians have long taken inspiration from poetry for their work; here are four rock songs that pull from well-known poems.

Among Rossetti’s best known poems is this short work about one of the plants most associated with the Christmas season. Our idea of what Santa Claus looks like comes from a variety of places ...

In the first few weeks of the First World War, the British Army requisitioned more than 120,000 horses to serve across the Channel. In four years of conflict, some eight million horses, donkeys and ...

Usually, this is carved on a plaque at the entrance to a forest trail. The prayer takes the form of a short poem presented as an anonymous work. While the poem’s most common title is “Prayer of the ...

The short film The Poem of Pakistan tries to answer this question by following Hamid (Inderjeet Singh), a young Pakistani insurance and investment broker living in Hong Kong. A Pakistani engineer ...