Sitting in a neighborhood bar, I ordered a beer and paged through a magazine where I found a short poem by someone named ...

Poet and author Charles Ghigna shares the story of a poem he wrote after waking up to his infant son's babbling over a nursery monitor.

From social media to AI, new technologies have changed the way that we produce and consume poetry. For World Poetry Day, we ...

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 ...

On one of the pages I had dog-eared was the poem, “Decide to Forgive.” I was struck by how timely it is. The message is much needed at this time. I believe in “doing unto others as you would ...

Much like Kościuszko, who survived the American Revolution and went back to Poland to fight against the partition of his homeland, and Pulaski, who gave his life for his ideals an ocean away from ...

"The Slowdown" offers a poem and a moment of reflection in short episodes ... however triumphant or painful. My life wavers between fate and destiny. But then again, poetry brings me to the ...

With these relatively short poems, you’ll understand why poets are ... It will, as the poet writes, make “all the difference” in life. I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.

It was a very trying experience. To help him cope, James wrote a short poem and kept it in his wallet. It is called Sit On The Lid and Laugh. After the war McQuire settled in Toronto and worked as an ...