With these relatively short poems, you'll understand why poets are ... An icon of his time, Lord Byron (aka George Gordon) is ...

Life is short, and it’s better to live in ... emotions are guests we should welcome like friends. In a poem about life we’d ...

This poem embodies that sort of intense, fleeting crush you get on someone that feels as though you know them from a past life. You know nothing about them, only what you imagine them to be like.

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 ...

The internet has more love poems that you could shake a diamante ... captured and killed by the Nazis. Sometimes, the best things in life come short, sweet and simple - as with this lovely little ...

To capture their experiences, Save the Children invited children from countries around the world to write short poems about COVID-19, life under lockdown ... I miss visiting my grandparents at their ...

This weekend showcases the endless possibilities in Iowa City from the Mic Check Poetry Fest to special film screenings ...

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

Andrew Cunningham, 29, spotted a tip online which suggested supermarkets send free gifts if customers send them a poem. He decided to test it out and wrote brand-specific short poems for 50 of his ...

Indeed, I think that when we dare to embrace poetry’s capacity to make nothing happen, we might come to a richer conception of those things we love to treat as battened down—stuff like doctrine and ...

Friedberg is a former investment portfolio manager, university finance instructor and author of three books including "Personal Finance; An Encyclopedia of Modern Money Management." Her work has ...