Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of ...

Maya Angelou, considered one of the best poets in history, signs copies of "Maya Angelou: Letter to My Daughter" at Barnes & Noble in Union Square on October 30, 2008 in New York City. Poetry is a ...

American poet Emily Dickinson. A mystical recluse, she lived all her life in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily Dickinson was a 19th-century American poet whose name has become synonymous with classic ...

With National Poetry Month comes spring flowers and some of the year's biggest poetry publications. And as April wraps up, we wanted to bring you two of our favorites — retrospective collections from ...

Our columnist selects the books that have stuck with her this year. By Elisa Gabbert Reading a lot of books in one genre, too close together, can start to drive you senseless, the way saying the same ...

Each April, the Academy of American Poets sponsors National Poetry Month. In recognition of Cincinnati’s extensive contributions to that genre, here is a collection of local poets who achieved ...

David Gate has a popular following online, but his best poems suggest he’s not entirely comfortable as an influencer. By Jeff Gordinier Jeff Gordinier recently won the James Beard Foundation’s M.F.K.

“A poet’s hope,” wrote Auden, is “to be, / like some valley cheese, / local, but prized elsewhere.” No poet fulfilled that hope like Seamus Heaney. Born near Castledawson in 1939, he was loved the ...

What may at first glance seem like a simple nature poem holds a deeper meaning that can teach children a lot about our world. First published in 1846, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “The Mountain and the ...

“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside of you.” — Rumi A few months back, I got an apricot mini poodle. When meeting him for the first time, I gazed into his eyes and sensed a deep wisdom ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Levani Kalmaxelidze / EyeEm via Getty Images Sometimes it's hard to put loss into words, but poems about losing a loved one can ...