“Renewal of Strength” tells us that belief ... At the end of the full-length poem, she realizes she has a long way to go before she finds her wings. how much a god, how much a human.

On Saturday, the headline show is from best-selling poet Donna Ashworth paired with McGowan who released his book of poetry, ...

We may earn a commission from your purchases. Throughout literary history, love poems have connected lonely hearts, transcended cultural barriers and ultimately withstood the test of time.

Robert Frost had a similarly liberating idea of poetry, and he saw the medium as “[…] the renewal of words, setting them free, and that’s what a poet is doing: loosening the words.” Though we’re ...

The Roman poet Catullus is one of the most popular and frequently studied ancient authors. His poems were written just over two thousand years ago during the chaotic but culturally vibrant final ...

While poetry might seem like the realm of intellectuals, this literary domain is vast, encompassing everything from the love poems we send our sweethearts on Valentine's Day to the funeral poems ...

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 ...

Narrative means story and a narrative poem tells a story. Lots of poems are mainly about thoughts and feelings and not about telling a story, so this is a key difference. Key features of narrative ...

The Double Feature of the Murdered Woman is a poetry collection by Carole David, translated by Donald Winkler.

“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 ...

Starting in 1975, the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets quickly distinguished itself as one of the most important publishing projects of its kind, winning praise from critics and poets alike and ...

Joe Coelho looks at how poetry can be performed, bringing the words to life rather than keeping them on the printed page. He explores what tone and timbre can bring to poems when performing or ...