it can be challenging to find truly good poetry books. That’s why we’ve talked to award-winning poets Grace Schulman and Chandanie Somwaru for their recommendations, and I’ve added a few of ...

What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean love poems? Something longer that you might find in a poetry book? Maybe something by Poe or Dickinson?

Rupi Kaur’s book recommendations reflect the ideas she deeply connects with, women’s empowerment, creativity, cultural roots, ...

These women, along with 96 inspirational others, have shared the private stories behind the poems that get under their skin in a beautiful and timeless book, Poems That Make Grown Women Cry.

Anyone misguided enough to think that poetry is just for the effete and the elite ought to take a look at this collection by Richard Tavenner, poet and electrician. Tavenner writes that he has been a ...

Plunkett, whose book offers close readings of the poems as well as the life ... Take, for instance, the famous penultimate line of 1913’s “Mowing”: “The fact is the sweetest dream that ...

sees Michael Symmons Roberts and Paul Farley explore the myth of the doomed poet. By exploring the lives, opinions and deaths of a variety of famous poets, the book builds up a picture of what it ...

Our idea of what Santa Claus looks like comes from a variety of places (including Coca-Cola’s famous ... this poem was attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, but in his book Author Unknown: On ...