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

Here are 126 poetry prompts for writers. If you want more detail about each prompt, click the link. Poetic forms are fun ...

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

Where to read: You can read “The Haunted Palace” at Poetry Foundation. Poe’s The Oval Portrait is one of his shorter stories, but one whose intensity is not limited by length. The short ...

Naming and seeing. Seeing and naming. It's hard to say which comes first, but once you get the hang of it, you walk through that doorway of gratitude straight into joy enough times that it becomes the ...

Choosing the right love poem for your boyfriend can be incredibly nerve-wracking, whether you're in a new relationship or have been together for ages. From sweet, short love poems for him to read ...

Rashad Abu Sakhilah was killed for his talent and inspiration - for daring to be a voice of hope in a world that so ...

Shakespeare reading "Hamlet" to his family, circa 1600. Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences. A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 ...

Garth Greenwell’s generous, expansive new novel, "Small Rain" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) is built on the author’s own ...

“It began with me having very outlandish ideas,” she recently recalled. “At one point, I thought we should rent a plane, and put poetry on little native seed packets that would fly out of the plane ...

This context can make Proyas’ film hard to watch: Lee’s complicated portrayal of a sad soul coming to terms with pain and mortality ... inside a brutally gothic poem, where beauty can only ...