This piece of short inspirational poetry was first published in Harper’s Magazine in December 1920 and later found its way into Frost’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book, New Hampshire, in 1923.

These lovely short poems for kids will get the little ones excited to read stanza after stanza Short poems for kids that ...

Poetry isn't as scary as you think. These 14 collections of poems tackle everything from grief and race to family and love.

LITTLE POEMS (Everyman’s Library, $18), a new anthology edited by Michael Hennessy, provides a history of short poems since antiquity, from Sappho to Ocean Vuong, a lovely pocket-size volume ...

Books: American Religious Poems Published Oct 05, 2006 at 8:00 PM EDT Updated Mar 13, 2010 at 6:00 PM EST By David Gates Newsweek Is A Trust Project Member ...

This poem, which appeared near the beginning of “Firstborn,” Glück’s 1968 debut (published when she was in her mid-20s), does a lot in 11 short lines, balancing death and desire with a ...

Stevie Smith, best known for her macabre short poem “Not Waving but Drowning,” could have furnished an alternative title for Stephanie Burt’s guidebook “Don’t Read Poetry.” I’m ...

Lyndsay Rush was never a big fan of poetry. But after discovering the world of internet poets through Instagram, she discovered that writing poetry could be attainable–and fun. Now, Rush is out ...