In celebration of National Poetry Month, here is a list of seven poems written by contemporary poets. These poems highlight themes such as sexuality, race and grief, proving poetry is not only ...

A débutante, a burlesque dancer, and a poet, the shape-shifting Lang—who died at thirty-two—wrote some of the most aching, ...

The most demanding long poems of our century-Pound`s ”Cantos,” Eliot`s ”Four Quartets,” Geoffrey Hill`s ”The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Peguy”-have been poems of fragmentation and ruptured ...

In a small garret room on the Isle Saint Louis in Paris, Charles Baudelaire sits and writes. He has a fuming pipe in his mouth, a book propped against his table, and there is a gleaming white goose ...

Memorable lines: If I lost you/the air wouldn't move, nor the tree grow/Someone would pull the weed, my flower/The quiet wouldn't be yours. If I lost you/I'd have to ask the grass to let me sleep.

This national poetry day, enjoy these iconic modern poems. By Anna Leszkiewicz In the UK, today is National Poetry Day! Many people use the day to share their favourite poems from the canon, but here ...

Joseph Parisi, Editor of 100 Essential Modern Poems, and Kathleen Welton have selected these remarkable poems by women writing over the past 150 years in the English language. You will find Emily ...

Meishan, China--(Newsfile Corp. - March 6, 2024) - In March 2024, an unprecedented visual feast will take place inside the Kennedy Center in DC and David H. Koch Theater in New York City's Lincoln ...