Sharing poetry is like sharing a piece of yourself with someone you love. Poetry can be a window to the soul, making it easier for the person you love to know more about you. There is probably a ...

Basking Shark To stub an oar on a rock where none should be, To have it rise with a slounge out of the sea Is a thing that happened once (too often) to me. But not too often – though enough. I count ...

When teaching children to read, it’s good to find ways to make reading as enjoyable as possible, that’s why we created a list of 10 short inspirational poems for children. Just like every painting in ...

What language moves the soul and a river of love in us? How do you express the deeper longings and feelings? What to say, when the beauty of waking in your lover’s arms fills you with delirious joy or ...

A new anthology highlights the charms and drawbacks of very brief verse. By Elisa Gabbert I remember where I was when I first read two short poems. One, Margaret Atwood’s “You Fit Into Me” (“you fit ...

If you're anything like me, poetry collections intimidate you more than any other type of book. I'm not sure where this poetry fear starts for many of us. Perhaps from school, where we're expected to ...