Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems ... There are endless amounts of silly, whimsical and ...

National Poetry Day is an occasion for everyone across the UK to celebrate poetry – in classrooms, bookshops and libraries, ...

Roses are red, violets are blue; we love us some funny poems, how about you? Part joke, part poetry, funny roses-are-red ...

The writing in this poem is taut, graceful and intelligent in a way that shows the mystical themes of life, including love, death, the mind and body, the church and Christ, and idealism.

Students could brainstorm ways in which a poem could be made funny, and when and why you would want to make a poem humorous. Students could have a ‘funny poem’ competition and try to write ...

New collections from Alexandra Teague, Daniel Borzutzky and August Kleinzahler tap into a strain of cultural anxiety.

All these years later, they’re just as appealing and funny and true.” Silverstein seemed to understand children’s anxieties and fantasies in a way that most other children’s fiction ...

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Love Letter,” which was published ... of ‘Tintern Abbey,’ ” and his own poem “Signs, Music.” The poet joins Kevin Young to ...

I became kind of obsessed with the relationship between spiritual traditions and the larger philosophy of human nature that I had grown up with, this idea that humans are made in the image of God, ...

“People say poets are mad,” Maria Stepanova writes in her new book-length poem, “Holy Winter 20/21 ... He invented quite a ...