What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean love poems? Something longer ...

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

There is a show I like to watch, With facts and knowledge galore. I wrote this poem when I was 14 and it is about a BBC show that I love to watch - QI.

One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — ...

When I was growing up, I thought poetry was very serious. It took me a long time to realise that it can be fun and that anyone can do it. At its heart, poetry is about having fun with words and ...

Please make our job easier next year, and send less interesting poems. There was a heartening variety in the work, too. We received poems from teenagers, and from readers in their 90s, There were ...

The simple, yet powerful image in Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon’s pensive poem Mambazham (1936) of a mother offering a mango to her son, where he had been buried, months after she had reprimanded ...

After finding them, Oliver scoured existing Woolf research, and asked Woolf experts, and couldn't find any other mention of these poems. Oliver says she thinks they were missed by other researchers ...