Here’s a fact that would have sounded wildly unlikely a decade ago: the most popular and influential poet writing in English ...

Sometimes we all need a cathartic cry. If that’s you today, then give these beautiful and moving poems, selected by women including Judi Dench, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Elena Ferrante ...

When grief seems impossible to express, let the literary greats lend a helping hand and provide some much-needed comfort with ...

In addition to love poems for him and her, you’ll find sad poems alongside funny poems, as well as short poems amid excerpts from longer epics. These poets have searched high and low for the ...

Whenever I’m feeling down, I know I can find not only solace in poetry but true inspiration as well. No matter how sad I may be, I know a few Walt Whitman verses will remind me of how rare and ...

The family of a beloved 75-year-old aspiring Russian poet mourned her hit-and-run death ... I’m very, very sad that it happened and it’s a big, big tragedy for my family — for my father ...

UNICEF celebrates World Poetry Day annually with themes like 'environment' and 'Standing on the shoulders of giants'. Poetry ...

Lenderman plays guitar on every track of Waxahatchee’s acclaimed 2024 album “Tiger’s Blood” and is a featured backing vocalist on its lead single, the warm and twangy “Right Back to It.” His voice ...

I Hate Parties is a collection of 50 poems on Jes Battis' experiences of being queer, autistic and nonbinary. Focusing on the ...

If I were a high school English teacher, one assignment of mine would be to select a poem, from a mini-anthology I would assemble representing a range of diverse forms and traditions, and ...

A Staten Island dump truck driver was charged with leaving the scene of a fatal accident in the Aug. 4 death of 75-year-old ...