Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form ...

With support from a Mellon Foundation grant, Brown researchers will build a database of African poetry, complete with poet ...

A Phillips Collection show places the work of Washington, D.C., poet Essex Hemphill alongside artwork his life and writing inspired.

It’s a song every American has heard countless times, but how much do you really know about our national anthem?

John Lennon wrote a poem using the N-word before he became famous. The former Beatle penned a racist verse during the band’s Hamburg residency in 1961. In the short poem, he uses the inflammatory ...

Rankine’s collection — which landed at No. 34 on our 100 Best Books of the 21st Century poll — mixes essayistic prose poems with free verse and ... all justly famous — and marvel at ...

I’ve seen this power in action while teaching the poem “Identity” by Julio Noboa Polanco, whose final verse declares, “I’d rather smell of musty, green stench / than of sweet, fragrant lilac. / If I ...

Parents need to know that Love That Dog by Sharon Creech is told in the form of a boy's free-verse journal entries. The boy, Jack, expresses his feelings on all sorts of things, but especially about ...

A study in the journal Scientific Reports suggests readers like AI-generated poems more than those written by poets like Sylvia Plath and T.S. Eliot. Nonexpert readers of poems from William ...

Moore's poem "Twas the Night Before Christmas." For almost half of that time, Forum readers have enjoyed seeing the famous words on ... "There is probably no verse — unless it is that of the ...

Tanikawa was born in 1931, a son of philosopher Tetsuzo Tanikawa, and began writing poetry in his teens, circulating with the famous poets ... helped him take his free-verse approach that went ...