What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean love poems? Something longer ...

George Oppen’s “From a Photograph” turns a wintry snapshot into a moving meditation on parenthood and the passage of time.

This poem embodies that sort of intense, fleeting crush you get on someone that feels as though you know them from a past life. You know nothing about them, only what you imagine them to be like.

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Because this poem is multi-layered and complex, it is best suited for readers who enjoy mentally unpacking layers of symbolism and interpreting the themes in ways that feel authentic to their ...

Let's begin with a poem about poetry itself. In Words, written in 1909, Yeats acknowledged that some of his best writing was inspired by (often self-inflicted) emotional turmoil, exploring how ...

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as all good poems do; as Homer's did, as Shakespeare's, as Goethe's, and as Baudelaire's; but they end up everywhere, as only the best poems do. This is partly because his wisdom is native to him ...

Among Rossetti’s best known poems is this short work about one of the plants most associated with the Christmas season. Our idea of what Santa Claus looks like comes from a variety of places ...

Walter Bargen, Missouri's first poet laureate, offers advice for people willing to embrace the world and be surprised.

Keep scrolling for 25 of the best poetry books of all time and fill your shelves with cultural masterpieces. Published posthumously, Gboyega Odubanjo’s Adam was inspired by a horrifying incident ...