So grab a handful of candy corn, pour yourself a ice cold glass of apple cider, and get ready to enjoy these five Halloween ...

This poem explores the themes of jealousy and rivalry through the relationship between a queen and a beautiful, mesmerizing flower. One of Naidu’s most famous poems, it celebrates the ...

The Nightmare Before Christmas,” is the world’s very first stop motion feature film, a beloved Disney classic and a movie ...

National Poetry Day is an occasion for everyone across the UK to celebrate poetry – in classrooms, bookshops and libraries, at home, onstage and online. The theme this year is ‘counting’, and the ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

Lyric poetry refers to a short poem, often with songlike qualities, that expresses the speaker’s personal emotions and feelings. Historically intended to be sung and accompany musical instrumentation, ...

The fourth annual anthology comes out right in time for Halloween with a special launch on Oct. 25 during the first ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. Mark Leidner’s poem ...

Nâzim Hikmet was born on January 15, 1902, in Salonika, Ottoman Empire (now Thessaloníki, Greece), where his father served in the Foreign Service. He was exposed to poetry at an early age through his ...