What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean love poems? Something longer ...

Let's begin with a poem about poetry itself. In Words, written in 1909, Yeats acknowledged that some of his best writing was inspired by (often self-inflicted) emotional turmoil, exploring how ...

Chimwemwe Undi is a Winnipeg-based poet, editor and lawyer. She was the Winnipeg poet laureate for 2023 and 2024. She won the 2022 John Hirsch Emerging Writer Award from the Manitoba Book Awards and ...

The famous words "'Twas the night before Christmas" shaped the holiday by popularizing stockings, reindeer, and even Santa ...

Check out these famous lines from poems you may not realise you knew. This is something you say when you’re having an informal get-together, and the meaning was the same in a famous poem.

Among Rossetti’s best known poems is this short work about one of the plants most associated with the Christmas season. Our idea of what Santa Claus looks like comes from a variety of places ...

Her On Poetry columns appear four times a year ... that were published this year or to believe I can say which are “best.” But these are some of the books I loved most, that have taught ...