Last summer, Maggie Smith — no, not that one — sat in a Starbucks in Bexley, Ohio, and wrote a poem. Smith had no idea that she was setting down the first lines of a work that would seize the ...

For example, take the author’s “Back to Reality After Space-Time Conundrums,” one of the highlights among the 57 poems found ...

Anyone familiar with the concept of the “1990s” might recognize the cunning of this poem’s slacker mood.

The New Year – time of change, time of new starts. Both poems today, the first by Jackie Kay, the second by Matt Goodfellow, capture the mood of the early days of January. They come from the ...

The poem neither questions that faith nor affirms it. The poet, carefully tracking the quicksilver moods of her subject, declines to impose her own view of the matter.

Engaging with artwork or reading a poem on the subway can go a long way in boosting mood ...

With poems about snow I can at least imagine that all those cozy images are the real story. Because, let's be honest: snow is more mood than weather.

In today's Dear Annie column, Annie Lane shares some of her favorite poems about the autumn season.

A NEW poem scientifically engineered to boost mood and compel people to be more active has been unveiled – but does it work on you? Bestselling poet, Charly Cox, created the composition using… ...