To celebrate National Poetry Day we've rounded up the best poems for reading at weddings, funerals and other occasions.

No matter how sad I may be ... From the beginning of this poem, you can feel Olivia Ward Bush-Banks’ voice of hope and inspiration in its beautiful verses. She speaks in divine proportions ...

New collections from Alexandra Teague, Daniel Borzutzky and August Kleinzahler tap into a strain of cultural anxiety.

In addition to love poems for him and her, you’ll find sad poems alongside funny poems ... Arguably one of the most beautiful love poems ever written, “Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven ...

T. as well!” “Burning the Old Year” by Naomi Shihab Nye As the name might suggest, this is another good poem to teach after winter break. “The imagery is crisp and beautiful and the idea of what we ...

Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences ... but as the sonnet progresses, there’s a beautiful shift in tone, one that is hopeful and changes from a sense ...

I have audition monologues that I personally love, such as Hamlet’s advice to the players—beautiful poetry, a great character, and funny to boot—but not everyone can or should play Hamlet.

Mort's collection "Music for the Dead and Resurrected" won the 2021 International Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2022 UNT Rilke Prize. Her other honors include a 2021 Rome Prize in literature and ...

“I never wanted for you, dearest daughter,/to be anything other than the beautiful and sensitive/soul you have always been.” Watson, who began writing poetry ... one has a sad part, too ...

6. Teachers-Kevin William Huff: The poem is about how a teacher shapes a student's life. 7. Favorite Teacher: The poem is about how students thank their teacher for being their pillar of strength.