We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

Artist Loryn Brantz aims to help parents feel seen through the moments of frustration, laughter and love that come with ...

I find him here in poems such as “To Albert Einstein (fragments),” written in 1948-49 in Washington. Miłosz had befriended Einstein during his time as a diplomat and asked the physicist for ...

The best books transport readers in ways a plane or boat (“frigate”) cannot. Likewise, poems such as this one carry us to faraway lands faster than the fastest horse (or, in the words of this ...

Catullus would be little more than a name and a reputation today had a single manuscript containing his poems not survived the Middle Ages. Such a narrow escape from oblivion would have shocked ...

Their main task is to compose poems that commemorate important national events such as coronations, royal births and birthdays. Chroniclers and poets wrote informally about royal events for centuries, ...

The main theme of a poem is often presented by referring to the same subject in a number of different ways. Figurative language, such as similes, metaphors, personification, and symbols ...

One key difference is that narrative poems often include some poetic devices such as rhyming, rhythm (by counting syllables) or repetition. A stanza is a group of lines within a poem. A stanza is ...

In types of poems, such as haikus, the writer counts the number of syllables in each line. In metrical poetry, however, poets don’t count the number of syllables in each line; they count the ...