Langston Hughes poems guaranteed to move you Langston Hughes is one of the most prolific yet most underrated American poets ...

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From love poems for her and love poems for him to words exploring issues of unity and injustice, gender and race, the best poem books explore all aspects of life.

L ate in his career, the English poet W. H. Auden distilled the whole business of poetry into three pungent lines: “A poet’s hope: to be, / like some valley cheese, / local, b ...

He really liked this girl in their school, he said, and wanted to write her a love letter ... A Verse Romance, brings 208 short poems together in a single poetic narrative.

When I was a ninth-grader growing up in Encanto, I used to struggle with poems that just wouldn’t work out. After a whole day ...

Michael Longley is a master of his craft, known for his compact, meditative lyrics that explore themes of love, violence, ...

Did Shakespeare get it wrong? Is life's basic question "to smile or not to smile," rather than "to be or not to be"?

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We spoke about everything and nothing at all, the way you do with people you love ... “There are no poems of mass destruction.” At the time, I didn’t know much about him, but through ...

How are we supposed to celebrate Simchat Torah this year with a full heart? The very name of this holiday - "the joy of the ...