Somewhere in the middle decades of the 20th century, advanced poetic taste decided that sentimentalism in general, and the sentimentalism of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) in particular, was ...

'I chose this amusing poem because it just sums up that when things go wrong, they can go wrong in a big way and we all have days like these, but hopefully we can smile afterwards about the silly ...

My folks could beg or borrow. With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the help of the North Carolina poet Sally Thomas, the Sun’s ...

At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for when you ...

"Is this the right time for that?" "Emily's name isn't Rachel" "What time should we leave for the airport?" "Would it be possible to stop volunteering me for things?" And now, he's followed it up with ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

So many of her poems are about things that kids pay a lot of attention to, like bees and insects and snakes and death,” Pierce Bonifaz said. “So it was really easy for the students to have a ...

Thanksgiving often inspires us to get a little poetic. Thinking and speaking about the things we’re grateful for is a time-honored tradition, but it can be hard to put those feelings into words.

To empower the girl-child to discover her potential through poetry, an ex-Corps member, Taiwo Thompson, asked pupils in his place of primary assignment, the Federal Government Girls’ College, Abaji, ...

‘‘You must grow wildly over the graves’’ rings too true for what many of us have known, for what many of us must find ways to tell our children. I write this thinking about Emmett Till and about how a ...

Beth Lechleitner, who writes under E. A. Lechleitner, wrote a collection of haibun style poems about her three weeks in ...