Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

Snow-tipped chimneys, fresh pine, lively carols and gifts wrapped with care: For over a century, Christmas poems have captured the magic of the most wonderful time of the year. While many people ...

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.

Mumbai-based poet Aamir Aziz has alleged that artist Anita Dube used lines from his poem Sab Yaad Rakha Jayega for her art without his “knowledge, consent, credit, or compensation”. “This is outright ...

For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ interactive technology to analyze a single poem at a time.

The fact that these two poems were published speaks for itself. Away the years fly as tears go by. You are not a fool to cry, you are human. Do you wish for immortality? You can’t always get ...

Borough of Manhattan Community College student Stephanie Pacheco, the 2024-25 National Youth Poet Laureate, wrote a poem highlighting her experience at The City University of New York and her ...

The prisoned music of her deathless roses. Leans the warped and clotted plow. The moon rolls up, while far away And thin with sorrow, the sheepdog’s bay Fills the valley with lonely sound. Slow ...

It is a time when the flowers begin to bloom and kittens are born. Below are some of my favorite poems about spring and joy and the innocence and beauty of childhood. “Spring” by William Blake ...

A new Netflix documentary has shone light upon a cryptic 24-line poem which led to a £1 million lost treasure hunt. The hunt took a full decade, led people to quit their jobs, and ultimately ...

The top court’s remarks came while quashing criminal proceedings initiated by the Gujarat Police against Congress MP Imran Pratapgarhi over a social media post with a poem ‘Ae khoon ke pyase baat suno ...