Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. His writing career began the year after he graduated from high school with the 1921 poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” His first ...

Peter Clothier is the author, most recently, of "While I Am Not Afraid: Secrets of a Man's Heart." “Ten Poems to Change Your Life” is a small book, the kind that takes up just a little space on your ...

At school, I would always dread the poetry modules in English, trying to decipher meaning from stale texts and reading out my pained interpretation to a class half-asleep. It was only when I found ...

Poetry is the original ear-worm. Something you learnt by heart at primary school can still trip off your tongue 30 years later. Below are some poems that will have somehow, over the years, clawed ...

Spring is one of the most popular seasons and a favourite among the writers and poets as its beauty fires up their imagination like no other season. It signifies new life, bringing a lot of happiness ...

For Valentine’s, or really any other day, here are some works by poets from Plath to Rilke that express some of our own most intimate feelings Love makes poets out of all of us. The few who feel ...

John Stammers is a poet and creative writing teacher. His first collection, Panoramic Lounge-Bar, won the Forward prize for best first collection in 2001 and was shortlisted for the Whitbread poetry ...