Explore a curated list of famous poems that everyone should read, featuring timeless classics and modern masterpieces that ...

Poetry and sport on TV may be the unlikeliest of teammates, but they’re often the perfect match. And during a summer of major ...

Through writing poetry, veterans evoke their thoughts in nearly endless ways. One vet writes, “We are left to care for each ...

The word poetry typically sparks thoughts of love poems and doesn’t necessarily bring fun and laughter to mind. The exception ...

Perhaps 1967, the year McGough’s poems appeared in The Mersey Sound ... he has been changing old lines for years, anyway. For ...

more than any other poetry I know, when you read Prynne you are on your own. At its best it is like being given a back-door ...

Ambush at Still Lake by Caroline Bird (Carcanet) Bird’s eighth collection is playful, irreverent and witty — even in poems that are ... finely observed lines find the redeeming light in ...

Some of her most famous poems include “Renascence,” “First Fig" (including the famous line “My candle burns at both ends”) and "Spring." You can read Edna St. Vincent Millay’s work in ...

Presented by hip-hop star Akala, this series features contemporary poets including Jackie Kay, Gillian Clarke and Ciaran Carson in conversation with Akala about some of their best-loved poems. ABC ...

For more than six decades, the poet Rumi has inspired me psychologically, spiritually, and transformatively. Here is why we ...