Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon epic poem about the defeat of Grendel – a creature whose exact form is still debated. Depending on ...

Poems can vary widely in length ... In this sonnet, the speaker encourages his beloved not to mourn him too much after his death because he fears that prolonged mourning would dilute the fond ...

Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right now. It’s called “Party Politics,” but it’s not ...

Langston Hughes poems guaranteed to move you Langston Hughes is one of the most prolific yet most underrated American poets ...

It’s curly and has so much volume and texture to it ... belong. Their voice, too, matters,” he said. Czaia focuses on diction with this poem, using an exercise from the Teach Living Poets website that ...

Poets.org: Welcome to the Guest Editor Q&A, hosted by the Academy of American Poets. I’m Mary Sutton, senior content editor at the Academy, and I’m here today with the Guest Editor for November, Laura ...

Do this in bits, pausing every few words, so that you don't give yourself too much to remember each time. Keep doing this until you can say all of the lines in the first part of the poem without ...

The indie-pop singer-songwriter makes her literary debut with ‘Eat the World,’ an insightful and introspective collection ...

The nothing that poetry does is not the absence of action. Rather it is the fullness of providing space for discovery, imagination, and fresh connection. This space is, I think, not too distant from .

Over recent years, the founding Black Sabbath drummer has unveiled much of his poetry, and has often shared ... Thunderclaps and lightning strikes too ...