You've heard of the "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" poem. But who actually wrote it, and what inspired these iconic ...

Reading the Poem: Silently read the poem “ finding tomorrow ” by m.s. RedCherries. What do you notice about the poem? Note ...

The most terrifying thing about the 28 Years Later trailer is the history behind the poem acompanying the footage of Danny ...

"Poetry should speak about contemporary matters and to one's contemporaries," Salter says. "On the other hand—and poetry's ...

Reading the Poem: Silently read the poem “ When the Burning Begins ” by Patricia Smith. What do you notice about the poem?

The Rudyard Kipling poem 'Boots' has been used to torture US marines in the past and everyone is saying the same thing.

Narrative means story and a narrative poem tells a story. Lots of poems are mainly about thoughts and feelings and not about telling a story, so this is a key difference. Key features of narrative ...

Five poets in their twenties have written poems on poverty with the support of arts organisation Young Identity. These are their poems along with their honest views and experiences of what the ...

What is it about life’s big and little moments that calls for a poem? At weddings. At funerals. On greeting cards. In church. On the radio. At moments of great happiness or deep sadness.

It may not be published on a piece of paper, but the presence of poetry is interwoven throughout our days, author Sylvia ...

Unlike many of her Black Arts contemporaries, she honed her voice in poems about the comforts of home and domesticity and the particular strengths and joys of being a woman. She insisted that her ...

A recent peer-reviewed study published in Nature Scientific Reports and reported on in NewScientist suggests that, in general, humans cannot distinguish between human-written poetry and poems ...