Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

In this week's column, author Lesléa Newman offers some advice for overcoming the anxiety that stems from struggling to start ...

Some poems are long and densely packed with meaning, but others are like snapshots written to save an image, idea or scene, writes David L. Harrison.

In her 1840 “I Slept, and Dreamed that Life was Beauty,” she writes a six-line poem, in tetrameter couplets ... emerged from “democracy in contact with Puritanism,” to use a nice phrase that George ...

As the lines in the poem read, “You may trod me in the very dirt, But still, like dust, I'll rise”, the poem is a true depiction of hope and resilience. 3 / 8 “Hope is the thing with ...

Olivia's poetry proved to be especially poignant as ... as George cleared a woodland space at Friar Park, ushering in new life even as his body began to fade. In his final moments, Olivia writes ...

Born in a village near Galilee, Darwish spent time as an exile throughout the Middle East and Europe for much of his life. He was imprisoned in the 1960s for reading his poetry aloud while ...