As The Poke points out, a poem written in 1920 perfectly encapsulates the baffling nature of English. In fact, it's so tricky that even native English speakers with college degrees may struggle to get ...

What if We Call This Tenderness. By Sampson Starkweather. some corporation or collection agency calls me 3 or 4 times a day maybe they are kind of another mother or ex-lover genderless & savagely ...

As U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón has focused her attention on the natural world, most recently editing a collection of nature poems, titled You Are Here. But Limón's ability to see what others ...

Consider the title of this column, “Everyday Ethics,” intentionally chosen to keep my focus on two realities. First, what’s ...

The poem generated and printed by Poetry Camera (transcribed below). Image Credits: Poetry Camera. Behind the lens, a man adjusts his gaze, Within the square confines of pixel space.

As guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2024, Mary Jo Salter spent last year scouring literary journals for 75 of the best poems from 75 different poets.To appear in the volume is a coveted honor, ...

Gazan literature professor Refaat Alareer shared a poem titled “If I Must Die” weeks before he was killed. Actor Brian Cox of HBO’s “Succession” read it as a tribute.

Author Matt Forrest Esenwine has some advice for would-be poets and creative types, and it all starts with a question: "What if ...?" ...

The love between friends deserves to be celebrated. These poems about friendship are sweet, relatable and heartfelt ways to say "I love you." ...

Clyne-Rekh wrote the poem in 1959 when she was 19 years old, out of her grief over the death of her first dog, a Labrador retriever named Major. When she got married, she showed the poem to her ...