Sonnets still have a reputation for being about the unrequited love of a man for a woman. AndreasPraefcke/Wikimedia Commons As poets have demonstrated for centuries, a sonnet for your beloved never ...

William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our ...

Love has always found its purest expression in poetry. Through verses, we capture emotions that sometimes words alone cannot describe—the heartbeat of affection, the sweetness of intimacy, and the ...

There are poems that express fragile sensitivity, poems that strive for cosmic profundity, poems that offer up idyllic perspectives on life that we would all be wise to emulate. But chances are, those ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Sonia Sanchez is one of the most powerful voices in American poetry, a literary giant whose work spans ...

Rejoice, poetry lovers, because April is here which means it's officially National Poetry Month, and entire 30 days dedicated to stunning stanzas, visceral verses, and prophetic poets. As part of your ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

This spring, The Tribune is inviting people from across the Central Coast to join us in celebrating National Poetry Month by sharing their best original poems. We welcome every kind of poetry, from ...

It’s almost a job requirement for poets: accept the fact of being far removed from mainstream artistic culture. We poets are happy—ecstatic, really—to cultivate a few hundred thoughtful readers, and ...