Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of ...

Maya Angelou, considered one of the best poets in history, signs copies of "Maya Angelou: Letter to My Daughter" at Barnes & Noble in Union Square on October 30, 2008 in New York City. Poetry is a ...

The Book of Psalms presents two daunting challenges to the Bible blog. First, because it’s just a series of poems, in no particular order, there is no compelling reason to start at Psalm 1 and read on ...

A débutante, a burlesque dancer, and a poet, the shape-shifting Lang—who died at thirty-two—wrote some of the most aching, ...

Permission” brings a memory of dog training, their pet now elderly: “I wonder if she remembers your scent — the cloud/ of ...

Do you ever just look back on all your experiences and see the beauty in them, both good and bad? If I had to guess, I would say most people forever hold certain experiences with disfavor, and ...

Two Cincinnati poets captured the spirit of the Civil War. Now, an Anderson Township man wants to find the poem that reflects ...

April is National Poetry Month, and while poems about love and loss abound, where are the cool poems about science? Where are the sonnets on space ships and smilodons? Science poetry is a little ...

COLUMBUS (WCMH) – Sydney Allateef may be small in stature but she is big in talent. The 5-year-old kindergartner was the first to be featured on NBC4 Today’s “Little Big Shots” segment. Al-lateef ...

Dorothy Law Nolte, whose poem crafted on deadline for a Torrance, Calif., newspaper in 1954 became – without her knowledge – a child-rearing anthem that parents posted on their refrigerators around ...