I hope you are enjoying our Sunday column, “Poetry from Daily Life,” which provides each week the wit, wisdom, and experiences of poets and authorities on poetry. By offering such a rich mix ...

There is no dearth of clocks out there featuring E Ink displays made by enthusiasts from around the world. They come in all shapes and sizes and are made to show time in different ways. However ...

When children write poetry, they often jump in with only a vague idea then follow where it leads — adults can do that, too, ...

Plath researchers deciphered two new Sylvia Plath poems from a piece of carbon copy paper found in the back of an old notebook.

But does the poetry evaporate along with the literal mystery? Is the poetic quality of Raleigh's lines dispelled by realizing that a rooster is the herald of daybreak, hatched rather than born?

Bentley would publish his first collection of clerihews Biography for Beginners in 1905, which included what is widely believed to be his first clerihew poem that he’d written at the age of 16 about ...

The British humourist and journalist Miles Kington wrote the bizarre two-line poem "A Scottish Lowlands Holiday Ends in Enjoyable Inactivity" in 1988— and then promptly forgot all about it.

I believe that two lines of poetry can save a life - Paula Meehan For decades, former Ireland Professor of Poetry Paula Meehan has used her works as a voice for social justice. Now, ahead of ...

Peter Sirr's The Rooms (Gallery), from which this week's poem is taken, has just been published.

Most mornings, after I make coffee and feed the cat, I sit in the black chair with my oatmeal and read a poem … or two.