Maya Angelou, considered one of the best poets in history, signs copies of "Maya Angelou: Letter to My Daughter" at Barnes & Noble in Union Square on October 30, 2008 in New York City. Poetry is a ...

Vendler cast her searching eye on individual poems by great poets in the final work of her life, Inhabit the Poem: Last ...

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of ...

Poetry Day is a celebration of poetry for everyone, everywhere. It’s a day when poetry takes to the streets. It’s a chance for you to use poetry to say things that can’t be said in prose. They mean an ...

Kwame Alexander believes that wonder lies between the lines of poems. His new book Out of Wonder, is a collection of original poems for children written in the style of some of the world's most famous ...

The Rainbow is a famous poem by William Wordsworth. One of the UK's most famous poets, Wordsworth was born in 1770 in the Lake District. His parents died before he was 14-years-old, so Wordsworth and ...