When Sissay was 12, he was given back to social services by his foster family who had taken him in as a baby. He knew from ...

What’s your favorite Langston Hughes poem? Maybe it’s one you grew up with. Maybe it’s one you stumbled across in a moment of ...

We’ve got you covered with both short poems and excerpts, as well as underappreciated works. Read on for the best Christmas poems of the year—they’ll bring you and your loved ones closer ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...