We may earn a commission from your purchases. Throughout literary history, love poems have connected lonely hearts, transcended cultural barriers and ultimately withstood the test of time.

Thousands of years ago, humankind figured out how to transform one of our greatest inventions into infinite beauty, and language gave way to poetry. From the prehistoric poems of the Nile ...

Just one beautiful line of poetry can stay with you forever. So feel inspired with these quotes from poets including Rupi Kaur, Sylvia Plath and Audre Lorde. “Poetry begins with a lump in the ...

When reading poetry a reader will interpret what it means to them. Everyone's response is different. What is imagery? Learn about how writers use imagery, the impact of imagery and how it appeals ...

Shakespeare reading "Hamlet" to his family, circa 1600. Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences. A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 ...

Joe Coelho looks at how poetry can be performed, bringing the words to life rather than keeping them on the printed page. He explores what tone and timbre can bring to poems when performing or ...

The best-written poems capture emotions, experiences, or images using a lyrical language. But what exactly is a poem, how is it different from prose, and how should we approach it?

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 ...

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Amanda Gorman has become the youngest poet ever to perform at a presidential inauguration, calling for "unity and togetherness" in her self-penned poem. The 22-year-old delivered her work The Hill ...

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