Art can help us make sense of the world, and these moving poems about life offer a better understanding of the ups and downs ...

Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form ...

Inspirational poems are like love poems written for life itself. Ahead, you’ll find verses that promise a roller coaster of emotions. We can’t help but hit rough bumps from time to time ...

Some poems are long and densely packed with meaning, but others are like snapshots written to save an image, idea or scene, ...

These six original works written for The Wall Street Journal by six astute American poets reflect the realities of our lives, but they do so with enough musicality and rhythm to tweak our ...

The book is about, yes, Disneyland, which was a fun subject to play with in these poems as I was, ultimately, telling a larger story about growing older and living life after my parents have ...

He is struck on a road just outside Damascus, and his life is readjusted. He then is the recipient of ... gives this same title to his newest book of poems. Like Paul, Spencer Reece has journeyed to ...

Where do poems come from? I’m asked that question a lot. Where do you get your ideas? Where do poems come from? After my school assembly programs, I like to allow time for students and teachers ...

The poems of “True Life” do not denounce these horrors explicitly, but seemingly allude to them almost as if in passing. The surface calm avoids the customary postures of condemnation ...

The love of my life played flag football on a team with our sons until ... I have attempted to document this journey, and as a poet, the poems just came about. Below are a series of poems written ...

Inspired by (among others) the DeafBlind poet and essayist John Lee Clark, Colgate unfolds a welcome array of poems about his own queer, complicated, sociable life in New Haven and Toronto ...