The person speaking is musing on the act of looking down a well, seeing the image of his own face on the surface of the water ...

Don't just say "I like you" or "I love you"—make your love confession to that special someone in a more romantic way, with an unforgettable poem.

When love walks away with someone else, it hurts, but it can also be the start of your rebirth. These 4 heartbreak poems will help you heal your broken heart and reconnect with yourself.

April is Poetry Month. I am not suggesting that you sit down and read poems for Poetry Month, but that you write your own poem for someone whom you dearly love.

Teen's 'White Boy Privilege' Poem Goes Viral: 'Change Really Starts with the Youth' In his first-prize winning poem, Royce Mann says of white and male privilege, "It's time to take that ladder and ...

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with poet Joshua Bennett about his new collection, Owed. Bennett says he tried to create poems that celebrate places and people who were disparaged.

The poem closes with two astonishing stanzas, the lens zooming out to take in the space around the poem, a world indifferent to grand, world-historical catastrophes: Altogether elsewhere, vast ...

“In its origins, poetry was not only oral, it was musical. In Old English, there’s a break in the middle of a line of poetry in which someone strikes a harp. It’s true of the oldest Greek poems, too, ...

A national program is working with teachers around the country to persuade students that reciting other people's poetry can be as transformative as performing their own.