Whatever state or mood you’re in, poems about life are there to guide you, to ease you and to help you find meaning and make sense of the world around you. Whether you’re toasting a recent ...

Maya Angelou’s poem was a retaliation against the oppression of black people in America. Over the past 40 years, it has come to be a piece that resonates with minority groups around the world ...

Writer Matt Hoisch, who has spent nearly a year interviewing poets for a project, describes the public good that comes from ...

To capture their experiences, Save the Children invited children from countries around the world to write short poems about COVID-19, life under lockdown, and how the pandemic has changed their lives.

from all around the world. Sappho, Du Fu, Hafez, and Shakespeare are joined by Gwyneth Lewis's space requiem, Tracy K. Smith on the Hubble telescope, and Charles Simic, whose poem accompanied a NASA ...

Some of the most vivid poems in the world are written on a huge rock in a remote forest in Sri Lanka. I have continued to be fascinated by them, by mankind’s endless inventiveness and ...

Leaving poetry around London isn’t going to change the world, or awaken someone to the feminist fight, but it might just make someone’s day. Life can be hard, and it’s little acts of joy ...

If you look around you, you might be surprised at ... Poetry Aloud Here," and editor of "A World Full of Poems." She has collaborated with Janet Wong on multiple poetry anthologies for ...