Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition? Think again.

What do you love most about poetry that keeps you connected to it? Poetry is the best way to view the world, specifically through the lens of mirrors and windows. [My English teacher] taught us ...

Where Hopkins’ speaker perceives the natural world as straightforwardly sacramental ... Spring,' and he has received a 2019 Christopher Medal for his poetry in the year’s best children’s book. He ...

A world of interiors ... Those correspondents might be pleased to learn that much of the best recent poetry does. Rhyme, complex fixed forms such as the sonnet corona, and the unkillable iambic ...

The poem itself could be an entry. The speaker, a Black person, sees the world as a “fenced-off narrow space,” an unnecessarily walled place, and resolves to obliterate cruel boundaries.

That's not the reason. I do it because they're the best poets in the world." Biden tells this joke a lot, usually right before quoting some more Irish poetry. Dan Cluchey, who was a senior ...

On World Poetry Day, Euronews Culture counts down the best uses of poetry in film – without so much considering the overall quality of the films themselves, but rather how well the poem has been ...

And through his poems, Jones reminds us that even though it often feels like the end of the world — we are alive, and we are here.

From a new translation of Homer’s “Iliad” to the strange new world of AI verse, it’s been an epic year for the art of poetry. Only a god or an algorithm would presume to list the best ...