Boomers were raised in a world where feelings took a back seat to grit, and emotional support often came with a sharp edge.

Madeline Miller spent over a decade writing The Song of Achilles – a fantasy romance retelling of Homer’s epic poem The Iliad ...

School pupils from Doncaster will receive a prestigious poetry prize at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London.

Arbind Kumar Choudhary is a poet in a thousand—one who refuses to become a mere puppet to any writer or stylistic convention, ...

Great for poetry lovers, Jessica Urlichs’ deeply personal and vulnerably honest collection of poems explores the ...

Susan Geston and Jeff Bridges have been together for almost 48 years — and their love is still going strong. In a world where ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Irene Latham, who lives on a lake in rural Alabama. Irene has loved poetry since childhood when her father introduced her to poems by Shel Silverstein.

Poem II from Adrienne Rich’s sequence Twenty-One Love Poems describes the poet waking in her lover’s bed following a dream. She tenderly writes: “You’ve kissed my hair / to wake me.” ...

Let’s talk about love. That’s what the people in this poem seem to be doing. The author and her friend, a scholar, are debating the crushworthiness of a certain “Romantic Poet.” 0Romantic ...

They’re sweet and packed with love, just what you need to remind your BFF how much they mean to you. So make your BFF smile with the best poems about friendship below.

Whatever emotion you're feeling can be found in poetry. So when life brings you down, turn to these inspirational poems to lift your spirits.