What kind of love poems are you in the mood for? Throughout literary history, love poems have connected lonely hearts, transcended cultural barriers and ultimately withstood the test of time.

Poetry is a distillation of thought expressed in a form designed to cut through the clutter of ordinary expressions and ...

October: Monster by Dzifa Benson “One language is never enough”, Dzifa Benson writes in the first section of Monster, her ...

There were muses specifically for comedy, tragedy and even erotica. The oldest was Calliope, mother of the legendary musician ...

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 ...

Many things: her unpretentious ... The best thing a reader has said to me – and the worst... Earlier this year I had a letter from a man who was dying, saying how much my poems had meant ...

To everyone's delight, the man read a poem he had written about the late Queen's 70-year reign. In a fitting tribute, he spoke of her 'long devoted service' and how she was 'that oyster pearl ...

New collections from Alexandra Teague, Daniel Borzutzky and August Kleinzahler tap into a strain of cultural anxiety.

maybe I'm her drunk cousin. KELLY: (Laughter). RUSH: And it - people love it, which is great. They're always like, I'm following you just for the handle alone. KELLY: OK, so you do have a poem in ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Lyndsay Rush, the poet behind @maryoliversdrunkcousin on Instagram, on how she went from not liking poetry to publishing her debut book of poems, A BIT MUCH.