Every poem has structural features that have a bearing on the way the poem sounds or what it means. To comment on the structure of a poem is just the same as commenting on its language – you notice ...

Poetry has been labeled a dying art for almost as long as it has existed: It’s not what it used to be, and nobody reads it. Shakespeare’s contemporaries wondered if English could ever equal Latin.

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

His hen could swim and his pig could fly. I answered him as I thought best, "They were both born in a cuckoo's nest." The man in the wilderness asked me to tell All the sands in the sea and I counted ...

Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, have teamed up with a star-studded cast of British actors to recite the festive poem "Twas the Night Before Christmas." The members of the ...

Eleven sijo (traditional poems) will be sent to the moon on a rocket set for blastoff on Jan. 15 carrying a private U.S. lunar lander. The Sejong Cultural Society, a Korean-American non-profit ...

There's a beautiful piece of prose in a Thai poem that reads: "Kavee rue lang laeng Siam" -- (Siam never runs out of poets). Composed over 120 years ago by Prince Paramanuchit Chinoros, the verse is ...