But I’ve been a professional writer (for books, TV, advertising, game shows, animation and more) since age ... poems, I just didn’t think poetry was for me. Not long after, while writing funny ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

My dear friend David, a prolific writer, wrote a funny poem recently about half lives that made me rethink my own thoughts about birthdays. About how when we’re kids, we’re always rounding up to seem ...

A mum wrote an hilarious poem in memory of her son's hamster. Julian Junior, 20, lost Bonnet, his pet of two-and-a-half years ...

And the love story is clearly not a main focus of “Iliad,” as Troilus is dead by the time the poem begins. “For me, though, it’s more about everybody’s individual struggle with the monster of war,” ...

On October 9, 1849, just two days after Edgar Allan Poe died, the final poem he wrote before his death was released. “Annabel Lee” told the story of a young love cut short. In their youth (I ...

"However, what many may not realize is how heavy the toll is on children and future generations. Here, a collection of art and poems about the climate crisis written by children around the world.

Shortly after he was found, Julian's boyfriend Aaron Hayes, 18, requested a poem as part of an obituary and Julian's mum Beverley Griffiths, 59, immediately obliged. In just 25 minutes, Beverley ...

He wrote books about Poland’s Solidarity trade union, premier Bill Bennett, and life as a gay man in Vancouver during the emergence of the AIDS epidemic, as well as writing poetry chapbooks, newspaper ...

I Am Maria: My Poems and Reflections on Heartbreak, Healing, and Hope' will hit bookshelves on April 1, 2025 Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

I’m not into poetry anyway, it makes me cringe’.” The thing about letters, she said, is that you get to know somebody very ...