A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

Iris Murdoch, the formidable Irish and British novelist and philosopher, died in 1999. Since then, the Murdoch industry has ...

Love languages may vary from one person to another, but it would be a challenge to find someone who wouldn’t enjoy and appreciate receiving love poems. This art form has captured our imagination since ...

Among all her poems, Remembrance (1845) stands out as a direct ancestor of Wuthering Heights. The speaker mourns a lover lost for “15 wild Decembers”. It is full of imagery of frozen graves and icy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. poems to read on a break The greatest casualty of our education system? Poetry. Either you’re from an older generation and you ...

American poet Emily Dickinson. A mystical recluse, she lived all her life in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily Dickinson was a 19th-century American poet whose name has become synonymous with classic ...

Shirley Rickett’s Tales weaves memoir and poetry into an unflinching life story shaped by memory, art, and the questions that ...

Some flowers are red; some flowers are blue. We have funny roses-are-red poems to share with your entire crew. Roses are red, violets are blue; we love us some funny poems, how about you? Part joke, ...

In our fraught modern world, poets are rarely celebrities. But celebrities sometimes get their poems published. Certain people (disgruntled scribblers) may scoff at this. What do Megan Fox, James ...