Discover classic poems and sonnets by William Shakespeare, featuring timeless themes of love, beauty, and human experience.

My beauty is a collage of multiple attributes. It includes compassion, understanding, integrity, the pain and sorrow of my ...

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See iconic Edgar Allan Poe poems and short stories, featuring gothic tales, dark themes, and hauntingly beautiful language from the master of macabre.

A review of Yewande Adebowale’s book, A Tale of Being, of Green and Ing by Femi Ojo. LIKE a spark that goes to a flame, ...

Using metaphors — saying one thing is like another — is a way of finding unexpected connections in the world, poet Allan Wolf ...

Are you a real poet? "Once upon a time ... I used to wonder when or how I would know the answer to that question," writes ...

Katie has recently rediscovered how vital dancing is to her physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing, along with realizing ...

This sense of hope and loss is fully displayed in her new book, The House of Being. Weaving together memoir and history, ...

Andy Mitchell has lived a life centered on words, from bookstore manager to library staffer and, now, to Jacksonville’s poet ...

Let us start with a little poetry joke, shall we ... I have adopted this punchline as the guiding mantra for my life. “Metaphors be with you” is a poet’s way of saying namaste, shalom ...

In fact, writing a poem is also like falling in love — with my own life. Robert Frost famously said: "I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of." Did he succeed?