With these relatively short poems, you'll understand why poets are ... An icon of his time, Lord Byron (aka George Gordon) is ...

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Because this poem is multi-layered and complex, it is best suited for readers who enjoy mentally unpacking layers of symbolism and interpreting the themes in ways that feel authentic to their ...

Where to read: You can read “The Haunted Palace” at Poetry Foundation. Poe’s The Oval Portrait is one of his shorter stories, but one whose intensity is not limited by length. The short ...

Andrew Cunningham, 29, spotted a tip online which suggested supermarkets send free gifts if customers send them a poem. He decided to test it out and wrote brand-specific short poems for 50 of his ...

Indeed, I think that when we dare to embrace poetry’s capacity to make nothing happen, we might come to a richer conception of those things we love to treat as battened down—stuff like doctrine and ...

What better way to celebrate than by revisiting Irish poet Seamus Heaney's "When All The Others Were Away at Mass," which was named Ireland’s best-loved poem of the past 100 years in RTÉ’s A ...

A CT history professor revisits the memorable election of 1884, 'one of the dirtiest in U.S. history,' which inspired a poem ...

Eric Kim’s scallion-oil fish turns olive oil, alliums and white fish fillets into a simple, luscious dinner. Who isn’t ...

Cypriot Australian poet Koraly Dimitriadis has won the Best Book of Narrative Poetry at the 21st Annual Best Book Awards, ...