Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of ...

Maya Angelou, considered one of the best poets in history, signs copies of "Maya Angelou: Letter to My Daughter" at Barnes & Noble in Union Square on October 30, 2008 in New York City. Poetry is a ...

With National Poetry Month comes spring flowers and some of the year's biggest poetry publications. And as April wraps up, we wanted to bring you two of our favorites — retrospective collections from ...

After last year’s eccentric line-up, the £25,000 TS Eliot Prize (the UK’s most illustrious and most lucrative award for a book of verse) is back to business as usual. This is a sane list of mature ...

Our poetry editor recommends collections that revel in nature, family life, hard work and language. By Gregory Cowles If we’re being honest here, a true starter pack of modern American poetry would ...

Each April, the Academy of American Poets sponsors National Poetry Month. In recognition of Cincinnati’s extensive contributions to that genre, here is a collection of local poets who achieved ...

David Gate has a popular following online, but his best poems suggest he’s not entirely comfortable as an influencer. By Jeff Gordinier Jeff Gordinier recently won the James Beard Foundation’s M.F.K.

Mihai Eminescu, Romania’s celebrated national poet, described actual places in many of his poems, and some can still be ...

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Levani Kalmaxelidze / EyeEm via Getty Images Sometimes it's hard to put loss into words, but poems about losing a loved one can ...