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 ...

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

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Any anthology is a product of its editor’s decisions. In “ 100 Great Catholic Poems ” (Word on Fire, $34.95), editor Sally ...

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 about those parties, or those politics.

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 idea applies to poetry too, and to many other beautiful things ... s out of this world with our space and astronomy calendar. Much of the understanding of Uranus comes from a brief flyby ...

That active, generative love is central to "Too Much Fun to Be Legal," the new collaboration from local Barbara Leonhard and Wyoming-based poet Nolcha Fox. The pair composed the poems here through ...

Fifth annual gathering explored the great Canadian singer and writer's motifs of love and brokenness after very hard week.

Even monolingual English readers have enjoyed her multilingual poetry, Rivera says. “What I’ve heard so much in response to the book is that people who don’t speak Spanish have told me ...