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

Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

It’s one of those classic short poems about life that can change the way you think. Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people. One of America’s most famous poets, Langston Hughes was a key ...

I have written over three thousand poems about life in our elementary schools, and I have learned that a short poem can have a huge impact on a child. Failure has always been a topic that ...

or life, too seriously. As in “Love and Other Poems,” his previous collection, Dimitrov’s man-about-town quality is on full display here, though the tone has shifted somewhat. The poems ...

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 ...

Her poems are born from life’s rawest corners—heartache, grief, faith, hope, healing, and love. These themes run through each of her books, yet no two feel alike. They speak in different tones but ...

So his is a life in words, but his route to that life ... and we define our audience first. I wanted to write poems that say, this is for everybody. So if you're looking for some laughter ...