Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If I ever write a memoir, I'd like to title it "Everything I Know About Life I Learned in a Poem." Of course, the marketing team ...

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” — William Shakespeare, 'Romeo and Juliet' Ask most people for a list of the most illustrious poets of all time, ...

What is it about life’s big and little moments that calls for a poem? At weddings. At funerals. On greeting cards. In church. On the radio. At moments of great happiness or deep sadness. At beginnings ...

American poet Emily Dickinson. A mystical recluse, she lived all her life in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily Dickinson was a 19th-century American poet whose name has become synonymous with classic ...

Diane Seuss’s fourth book of poems, “Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl,” is anything but still. This collection showcases a poet who is writing some of the most animated and complex poetry ...

If you think poetry is too difficult, you’re not alone. Most people avoid the genre unless they need a reading for a wedding or a funeral, and many are haunted by shameful school memories of trying to ...

Seasonal Fires gathers together poems from Ingrid de Kok’s three collections so far (1988, 1997 and 2002) and a volume’s worth of new poems. As a “selected” should, it demonstrates the breadth and ...