Capildeo hails from the family that produced Nobel Laureate VS Naipaul. Though perhaps the most significant thus far, the ...

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 ...

Patricia Sánchez and Carmen Tafolla preview the April 3 Campoy-Ada awards for Spanish-language and bilingual children's ...

Explore 8 powerful but lesser-known poems by Maya Angelou that reveal her depth, spirit, and poetic genius—perfect for discovery during National Poetry Month.

Although his approach departs somewhat from Rilke’s — the speaker in these poems may not always love the questions quite as ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

World Poetry Day is observed annually on March 21 to pay tribute to poets. It also aims to promote the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry worldwide. Poetry is a form of art and culture.

Navigate your way into this beautiful art form with this list of the most famous poems ever written. What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean ...

Despite having only two lines, this short poem is a strong example of imagism, a movement in the early 20th century that was characterized by sharp language that created incredibly clear imagery.

I had another 5 to go. A mound of ice cream felt like a fitting reward for reaching the halfway point of my trek in Italy’s famed Cinque Terre. The “Five Lands” — which, like everything ...

But there's a problem: "pius" Aeneas, as he's called in the poem (meaning dutiful and, for lack of a better term, job-oriented), has his eyes on his mission to found a new city for his people ...